Authors utilize different types of syntax in order to more effectively convey their message. The way words are organized into sentences can change the meaning of a poem so authors, such as Naomi Shihab Nye very carefully format the sentences. For example, the poem, “Daily”, does not follow a typical sentence structure of subject action then object. Instead the structure repeats itself from line 1 to line 18 by stating the object first and then introducing the pronoun subject and the action. In line 1, “These shriveled seeds we plant”, the structure is the object, these shriveled seeds, subject, we, and then the verb, plant. Then in line 18, “like flags we share”, the object, flags comes first then the subject, we, and the action, share. The