Read this excerpt from Walt Whitman's poem "In Cabin'd Ships at Sea" fi The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the
briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhyth
The boundless vista and the horizon far and dim are all here,
And this is ocean's poem.
Why did the author most likely choose this structure for his poem?
The varied line lengths provide a steady rhythm.
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