The missing stressed syllable between horizon and dull, gives the line an idiomatic feel. She writes with the skill of a poet who has attained a degree of ease and comfort in the writing of formal verse. There’s a nice mix of end-stopped and enjambed lines that suggests a poet able to think beyond the next rhyme. And yet the enjambment isn’t so indiscriminate as to suggest prose that rhymes—a common trait among free verse poets who try their hand at rhyme and mete
