This style is evident in the poem's first line, which is written in all lowercase letters and contains the unlikely phrase "pretty how town".
The poem is organized into quatrains, with four beats (though a varying number of syllables) per line.
[2] The poem's opening line uses the word how in a place that would typically be filled by an adjective.
[5] In the poem, Cummings states the lines, "spring summer autumn winter", (3) and "sun moon stars rain", (8) multiple times.
In reiterating these lines he changes the order of the seasons, "autumn winter spring summer", (11) and "stars rain sun moon", (21).