Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore

What I noticed about both Stevens and Moore is that they seem to jump around a lot. Sometimes they have real solid rhythms and real solid rhymes but other times they seem to just go free verse. It’s a bit hard to get use to. One paragraph will be very floaty and rhyme very well and then the next is just incredibly hard to read. It could be that there is some rhyme scheme going on that I just cant get unless someone else read it but most of the time reading it I couldn’t find any or the rhyme was just obvious. I’m not very familiar with rhyme so that could a big part of it. I am by far a novice with the terms as well.
One that I did notice is that there was a great deal of alliteration in Wallace’s poems even though it often didn’t seem to add to the flow at all. "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens had a great deal of rhyming plays in it. In line 13 Stevens uses a weird version of what I guess you could consider alliteration. It says “The grinding water and the gasping wind.” I found this so odd because it is just repeating the first letter of two words in a row later in the same sentence. Its almost like the end of the sentence is a mirrored image of the beginning. I do not know much about the background of Stevens but I would not be surprised if I came to find out he was not well respected by many for his poetry because a lot of sentences seem like they are cheating with rhyme schemes. An example of this is in line 6 when it says “Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry.” He repeats words as a rhyme. I always thought using the same word to make something rhyme was kind of the cardinal sin in poetry or music but he does it without any fear. One other thing I noticed he does is he often changes where the rhyming word in a sentence is.
Moore does a lot of the same things. In “Nevertheless” there is a rhyme scheme that goes on through out the whole poem but it feels offset when words repeat. The poem goes in sets of three lines where the last word of the second line and the third line rhyme. The repetition of a word in the sentence does not occur in all of them but it does throw you off when it does. An example is in lines 22 to 24 where it says “to me unless I go/ to it; a grape-tendril/ ties knots in knots till.” The words tendril and till are the words that rhyme and knot is the word that repeats. The next paragraph as well does this with under and stir being the rhyming words and gone is the repeating word.