Sylvia Plath's "Medallion"
-nine stanzas
-each stanza consists of three lines
-nearly all enjambed
-line 8 only non-enjambed sentence
-stanza 9 made of two sentences (only other stanza besides 3rd containing a full sentence)
-references to metals throughout ("Medallion", death's-metal, knifelike, pins, arrow, chainmail, bronze, gate, unhinged)
-and making/finding (forging) metals (smoldering, splitting a rock, flame, fire, "turned him in the light", worked)
-half-rhymes between 1st and 3rd line in each stanza (flame/time, that/trout)
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