Sign Inventory,Kate Northrop's "Aspens"

• Each stanza is separated into four lines.
• Rhyme scheme AABB CACC DAEF GHHI
• Uses repetition heavily in the first two stanzas ("they are white / they are not white," "sound" is repeated three times in the second stanza)
• creates tension through contradiction early in the poem
• In the last stanza, the imagery moves into the domestic space "As if on a back stair / Or here at the window") briefly before ending with a "meadow"