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 Moore’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.