Out+on+a+Limb

The poem,"Out On A Limb" has form of Free Verse with no rhyming. There are five stanzas and the first four have four lines and the last stanza has six lines. The sound of this poem is that there is no alliteration but there is metaphor used in this poem. An example of a metaphor is in lines one through four" I'm a lonesome fallen leaf just dropped from Mama's tree"since the narrator is being described as a leaf and the mothers family is being described to a tree. Kinda like a family tree. In this poem there is also a little personification. An example of this is when the stream is Being Described as Fearsome and since streams are a non-living thing then it is given the houman characteristic as "Fearsmome". The imagery given in this poem is when the narrator is describing the fisherman staring at his veins as they cast anew.This is mostly the only imagery that this poem gives me. Finally meaning of this poem. This poem is pretty hard to get a moral out of but to me the meaning of this poem is that when you are left alone without family then you will go down a river of despair and regret.-Jonny33