While having no particular form of poetry she seems to commit to, unlike Shakespeare's beloved sonnet, Jane Hirshfield plays around with a variety of style and forms.
In her introductory and title poem, “The Lives of the Heart” (pp.3), she uses a wealth of anaphora while somehow managing to not overwhelm the poem. The anaphora actually helps the poem along. This poem, like so many of her others, are punctuation heavy which calls for a lot of starting and stopping.
The anaphoric
phrases served to give the lines a better flow and connection with the other lines. The use of enjambment, which 
