This is the prologue for Part Two of America Is Lost: Raymond's Revenge. Listeners will be surprised that the poet has changed the style in this part with a more consistent rhyme scheme as a twist to the naturalistic poetic style. Rhyme schemes are so burdensome for a poet, and often the poetry becomes forced to adhere to the scheme. In this case, the poet will use rhyme scheme as long as the rhyme is meaningful. This off and on application of rhyme scheme is a new application of the naturalistic style because the poet has the choice to abandon rhyme at any point in the poem while also employing other poetic characteristics such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, alliteration, consonance, and assonance among others. It might not be apparent to the listener that there are other more physical characteristics of poetry such as acrostics and meter becau ...