Of all the literary genres known to mankind, poetry is a form that has an unclear distinction, standard, and structure. Indeed, 21st century literature is full of evidence of deviation from the usual form of language – or poetic license as they call it. Many poets are interested in linguistic experimentation in which syntax, vocabulary, capitalization, and punctuation are considered unconventional and unique. Speaking of deviation from the norm, Edward Estlin Cummings, often stylized as EE Cummings, is quite the pioneer of avant-garde poetry, especially in the way he writes his poems in a peculiar and unusual way. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay With the advent of stylistic analysis in literature, the works of E.E. Cummings are brought into limelight so that readers and critics can see his poetry in a linguistic perspective and how examining its form would reveal new meaning and interpretation. This article will examine the poem mOOn Over tOwns mOOn (1935) and will be analyzed in terms of linguistic deviations on two levels (graphological and lexical). Likewise, grammatical and syntactic peculiarities will also be examined accordingly in the poem. When analyzing Cummings' poems, his graphology is the easiest to identify, as it lies at the most superficial level of linguistic deviation (Li & Shi, 2015). In poetry, spacing, punctuation, capitalization, lowercase letters, line divisions, and breaks have an unusual style. These targeted idiosyncrasies have effectively used all the possibilities of the visual patterns in this poem. Take for example, among all the letters in the poem, the letter "O" seems to appear 18 times (11 times in capital letters, 7 times in capital letters). By placing much emphasis on the letter "O", the reader may assume that the letter "O" is the symbolization of the moon. In the first two stanzas, the letter "O" is capitalized: it can suggest an enlargement or emphasis of the moon, showing the fullness and roundness of the moon hanging high and watching over the cities. Additionally, the capital “O” can also imply the citizens' wide-open eyes and mouths revealing their excitement, enthusiasm, and anticipation at the sight of the moon. On the other hand, in the last stanza you can see the decapitalization of the letter 'O' while the other letters are capitalized. This could indicate that in the last part of the poem, the previously excited citizens lost their interest while looking at the moon and turned a blind eye to the beauty that the sky has to offer them. This significant scattering of lower and upper case letters in the poem is just one of Cummings' usual typographical quirks. He used letters to effectively exploit all the possibilities of visual patterns, especially in this poem. In relation to words and lexicon, it is observable that this poem is made up of its infamous neologisms and lexical coinages, through affixations such as "groping" and "dream". The addition of the suffixes –ness (suffix of the noun to express a state, condition, quality or degree) and –est (suffix of the adjective or adverb used to form the superlative degree) is intended to imply newly formed concepts on the search for reaching for something (groping) or visualizing something in its extreme form (dream). These neologisms help evoke visual imagery in the minds of readers. Furthermore, it also manifests itself in the first and second stanzas of the poem, its second line is always a verb – 'whisper' and 'float'. The use of these verbs also implies describing the moon:.