What is the poet's style in the poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird?

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is comprised, as alluded to in the poem’s title, of thirteen cantos. The poem’s cantos range from two to seven lines of verse. The shortest canto has seven words, while the longest canto has twenty-seven. Despite this variance, the meter is generally rather even. The shortest single verse has only two words, while the longest has seven. Thus, the poem has a relatively narrow rhythmic range. There is no discernible rhyming meter in the poem. Each canto, despite being broken into multiple verses, contains one or more complete sentences with proper English punctuation. The cantos are headed with roman numerals, following the template of classical epic poetry. This lends the poem a formal and somewhat staid resonance.