Mending Wall

There is also another reference to the boundary idea is where it says, "We keep the wall between us as we go." It seems t suggest that they are working together, but trying to keep each other apart as they do so, and so creating a boundary.
             A lot suggests that they do not really get on well. The narrator of this poem makes some sarcastic references to his neighbour's views. For example, "My apple trees will never get across / And eat the comes under his pines, I tell him." He is almost mocking his neighbour's views here. He does a similar thing later on line 30 when he says, "Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it / Where there are cows? But here there are no cows." Again, he is using sarcasm deliberately to mock what his neighbour believes.
             There also appears to be little communication between the two men, in that the neighbour only seems to say one thing: "Good fences make good neighbours." It does not suggest that they converse much, and the whole idea of building a wall in the first place separates them up.
             What makes the fence building seem quite traditional is the reference the old things. The use of "old-stone savage armed" gives the idea of time passed, and yet still carrying on. The line where it mentions "his father's saying" suggests it is something that has been done for generations, and it is traditional.
             Most of this poem seems to be decasyllabic, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall". The regular rhythm is an iambic pentameter. There does not appear to be any straightforward rhyming scheme. Most of its structure relies on the rhythm. It does use enjambment where the lines continue on from one another, "I have come after them and made repair / Where they have left not one stone on a stone-.
             In some points, the rhythm is used to re-enforce a part of the meaning within the poem. The first time this is used is in the very first line. Instead of saying "There is something- it is "Something there is- The reason the syntax has been changed here I to cause a slight disruption to the rhythm to emphasise the word "something" as it is the subject of the verbs to follow.