How does the poet structure the poem, The Fairy Reel?

The Fairy Reel is a 44-line poem broken into two thematic stanzas: the first is 32 lines, while the second is 12 lines. This divides the poem into a block of roughly two thirds and a closing section of one third. The poem uses iambic tetrameter, a metric form that utilizes an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable in patterns of four, for a total of eight syllables per line: “If I were young as once I was” (Line 1).