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Like many of Momaday's poems, "To a Child Running with Outstretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly" is written in syllabic verse, meaning that the poem's lines are constructed using a given number of syllables, without regard to stress. In this case, each line of the poem contains six syllables. The poem's eight lines are divided into four-line stanzas called quatrains.