top the rhythm, it marks the limits on his destructive power" (Powers 237) and who knows what lies beyond. In "Buffalo Bill's" cummings' style not only includes line breaks, but run on and joined words as well. His line breaks and technique of separating words is a precise and deliberate method which causes the reader to think. Separating "defunct" by itself could also mean death (Dilworth 176). Using the word Jesus in a place by itself with a long space, indicating a pause, before and after it, indicate that it is not being used to describe Jesus Christ, but rather as an expression of amazement and awe, common in everyday speech. Cummings, throughout this poem, uses space in order to indicate pauses, much as a comma would do. In this poem he also uses run on and joined words to emphasize description of Buffalo Bill. In line four of the poem cummings wrote "watersmooth-silver" to describe the stallion in line five. The combination of the words are referring to the fluidity and grace of the mighty stallion, but suggest that it is a coward by describing its blood as water. This image does not coincide with the masculinity Buffalo Bill, himself, portrayed by not acting like a coward. Silver, used in conjunction with watersmooth, that described the stallion, Dilworth stated, could also refer to the "silver-haired Bill Cody in old age"(175). Cummings also uses the combined words "onetwothreefourfive" and "pigeonsjustlikethat." These emphasize what made Buffalo Bill famous in the first place, his sharp-shooting as well as the diction of the speaker. "Onetwothreefourfive" is the speed of which he can draw his gun and nearly empty it destroying "pigeons-justlikethat." "Pigeonsjustlikethat" are the clay pigeons that Cody destroyed while perfecting his shooting. In "next to of course god america I" cummings uses popular clichs, a run on word, and a line break in the poem for his style choice. In the beginning section of the poem he uses no punctu...
