Analysis of “The Vietnam Wall” In the poem “The Vietnam Wall” the reader joins the poet Alberto Rios (1952) on a visit to the Vietnam War Memorial. Rios portrays first-hand the powerful emotional effect the wall has on everyone who visits. “The Vietnam Wall” can be found in Discovering Literature edited by Hans Guth and Gabriele Rico pages 541-542. “The Vietnam Wall” is a one stanza poem with no apparent rhyming scheme. “ The Vietnam Wall” is a picture poem, meaning the way in which the lines are written and spaced, the poems appearance bears resemblance to the shape of the wall. The lines of the poem are short in the beginning, longest in the