TONIGHT NO POETRY WILL SERVE

Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid

later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere

Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve

Syntax of rendition:

verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action

verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verbdisgracedgoes on doing

now diagram the sentence

—Adrienne Rich [https://cutt.ly/fQJDZEp]