The form of most of John Berryman's works in the dream songs is mostly 3 free verse sexains in each. However, in songs 73 and 74 he adds a tercet in the middle of each. Also, in song 75 he has 2 sexains and the third stanza is a septet(7) and in song 77 he has a line by itself after the first sexain and the second stanza is a septet. Other than those few variations the others are all the same of the songs assigned. /////// Within his poems there are many commas, periods, line breaks and other tools to dictate how the reader should be reading the poem. The lines themsleves vary from one word to filling the entire margin of the page. There is quite a bit of alliteration and internal rhyme within the poems that I found very impressive. "-Hit's hard. Kinged or thinged, though, fling & wing."(Song 2 line 16) Many of the poems seem to use words in the wrong place to catch the readers attention. "Seasons went and came."(Song 75, line 9) ///// He wrote a very confusing style that was hard to understand and follow. Some of the songs seemed to have complete different meanings in the first stanza compared to the last and even middle stanzas at times. Song 54 I understood to be of him in a hospital bed dreaming of his wives and his son. The memories make him feel like he had no purpose for doing anything he did in his life "I have been operating from nothing, like a dog after its tail more slowly, losing altitutude." The third stanza is him saying I did nothing that would warrant anyone taking advice from him yet he still gives advice "write as short as you can, in orde, of what matters."