In "The Meadow", Kate Knapp writes using an intimate and calm tone as she uses stanza form and the metaphor that longing for that one special person is looking out into a meadow to relay the message of the unknown. This message of unknown fate that is shown through the speaker's lines. As the speaker stares "at this window", he or she loses track of time as he or she is consumed by their thoughts when trying to imagine and conceptualize the unknown that lies before them. The concept of the unknown and the confusion of the speaker is brought to life in this poem as the speaker ends each line in the middle of a sentence, leaving the reader with an unfinished thought. "Half the day lost, staring" reads the first line. "At this window, I wanted to know" reads the next; the fourth reads "just one true thing" and the fifth reads "about the soul". The reader is not able to get through one line with one complete thought and that is exactly the point. This structure conveys the speaker's confusion and lack of ability to predict what will happen in the future. The speaker proves that looking through a window at a meadow is like someone looking for their beloved as both make the person lose track of time, as the speaker says "two inches of snow have fallen over the meadow" and then "Where did I go, how long was I out looking for you?", showing the similarity of how just as one loses track of time while enjoying the scenery of a meadow and then out of nowhere, it has begun to snow without the person even realizing, one can look out for their beloved for extended periods of time forgetting how much time they have spent doing so.
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