“for the dead” by adrienne rich i dreamed i called you on the telephone to say: be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer the waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself i have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after the rains have stopped or the fire you want to go to bed from but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down the red coals more extreme, more curious in their flashing and dying than you wish they were sitting long after midnight source: rich, adrienne. “for the dead.” famouspoetsandpoems. com. famouspoetsandpoems. com, n. d. web. 18 may 2011. which technique does the poet use to continue lines of poetry into the next without stopping?

rhythm
rhyme
enjambment
imagery