What is the author's style in Fear by Gabriela Mistral?

Even in its original Spanish, "Fear" follows no strict rhyming or rhythmic pattern. This poem is predominantly, but loosely, iambic, which means that the rhythm that occurs most frequently is the iamb. An iamb is a combination of one unstressed syllable with one stressed syllable. A line like "and nev-er fly a-gain to my straw bed" starts out iambic before losing the pattern at the end; the line "and when night came no lon-ger" is iambic with one extra syllable at the end. The quantity of iambs in this poem gives it something like an iambic structure, but it would not entirely be correct to say that the poem has a definite rhythm. There is also a strong presence of the "Cretic foot," which follows a pattern of stressedunstressed- stressed. The line that appears with varia tions at the beginning and end of each stanza has two Cretic feet: "I don't want / them to make." There are definite rhythmic patterns in "Fear," but they do not add up to an overall rhythmic design.