Nature is responsible. Notice the fish swimming in the middle of suf fic ient . This is clever stuff, because the poem is about a fish. But not as clever as nursery rhymes. The poems of Robert Graves are carefully preserved in books.
Nursery rhymes swim through wild seas across generations of parents and children.
Understanding poetry by rolling over in clover Reading poetry should reward you with itself, but not necessarily with meaning. A poem in a language you do not know, may reward you with the feeling of its words. A poem in a language you thought you know, may be in a foreign language to you, and also feel good. People who write poems do not always know what they mean, and the simplest of poems can have multiple meanings. The following poem illustrates many of these points.