What is the form and structure of the poem "Anecdote of the Jar" by wa

Question: What is the form and structure of the poem "Anecdote of the Jar" by wallace stevens!?

I placeda jar in Tennesse,
and round it was, upon a hill!.
It made the slovenly wilderness
surround that hill

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild!.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air!.

It took dominion everywhere!.
The jar was gray and bare!.
It did not give of bird or bush,
like nothing else in Tennesse!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Oh, I love this poem!. I liked it so much, that I once translated it into Anglo-Saxon!. But form and structure is an unusual question to ask about this poem: obviously there are three quatrains of somewhat loose iambic tetrameter (-`-`-`-`) with obvious exceptions, an irregular rhyme (air/everywhere/bare) and a pervasive internal rhyme on round (the jar was round upon the ground; also: surround/round)!. Round is a compelling internal rhyme because it is a very, very long syllable, and gives a curious oral structure to the poem, as the jar does to the wilderness!. I suppose the poem is about how we make of things what we want to see, and see in things what we have made!. Hopefully this is roughly what you were looking for!.Www@QuestionHome@Com