The effect of all these innovations, combining the ordinary word with the learned, the unstressed rhyme with the strongly stressed, the syllable count, is to create a tone of careful, fastidious conversation of a lady who has seen much, heard much, read much, thought much, and wishes to be as precise, as accurate as possible, in communicating her experience. Whether Marianne Mooreˇ¦s poetry is durable or not, only future generations will decide. But surely there is enough freshness and originality in it to give pleasure to many generations to come.