I'm afraid my poem was never deliberately organized. The rhythm seemed to tell me to cut at the sixth line in this one...I tend towards the organic, I guess, when it comes to strophes (I hope I'm using that word correctly). I see them like paragraphs. I have absolutely know formal education in poetry. none whatsoever. Anything I know, I learned from this forum. And much of that was gleaned...not rationally concluded.

Playing with doggerel has helped me with the di DAHs...which I have since learned are iambs, trochees, and dactyls, etc...from a blog I tracked back to because an English teacher commented on my Pet Peeve poem.

But (if I'm understanding you correctly) like you, I don't like the idea of working only with the architecture if it means the poem is empty of furniture and family.

I'm glad you commented on this poem. Thank you.