Compare and contrast the black snake and the narrow fellow in the grass

As regards form we can say that "The narrow fellow in the grass" is a short poem of thirty-two lines divided into five stanzas. It starts and finishes with two balanced stanzas of four lines each, which surround a central stanza of eight

lines. On the other side "The Black Snake" is a poem written in free verse. You can find six quatrains with no rhyme scheme. Enjambment is used to continue the ideas from one line to the following.

Considering the meaning, what they have in common is that both poems are about humans and nature (represented by the snake) and life and death and the connections between them.