The technique of organizing poetry through lists or enumerations, where sequential presentation becomes the primary structural device. This ancient method appears in Homer, the Bible, Whitman, and contemporary poets, creating meaning through accumulation and ordering. List style can be straightforward enumeration or complex meditation using sequential structure as framework, with the listing itself revealing priorities, relationships, and conceptual organization underlying the surface content.

Using lists as organizational principle for poetry. The list form can be straightforward enumeration or complex meditation. Modern technique popularized by Whitman, now common in contemporary poetry.