Question

Read the excerpt from "Buffalo Dusk” by Carl Sandburg.

The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed
the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their
great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,

Which graphical element does Sandburg use?

different line lengths
punctuation
unusual word position
capital letters

Answer 1

different line lengths

Sandburg uses varied line breaks and indentation to shape the poem's rhythm and visual layout.