Anapestic dimeter; dactylic monometer: the book teems with swaying, Swinburnian meters split across telegraphically short lines, and the method works especially well in the book???s first poem, ???Scythe.??? Leithauser begins with lines that are rhythmic without quite cohering into metrical regularity: ???If it could speak it would offer / you excess; it would / offer you more.??? By the fifth lin