The poem Nobody Dies, is written in open verse. It has no particular rhyme scheme and does not have any parameter. I was able to locate a couple of metaphors. In line 3 when she writes, " nobody dies" (3). Also in line 30 she writes, "To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died" (30). I do not feel that Edna wrote this poem with much thought of rhyme schemes and iambicpentameter. Rather I think she wrote this poem out of a deep feeling she had inside her. Sometimes feelings can loose there meaning if you don not expr ....