In “The reoccurring and ever losing battle” the speaker documents the experience of her medical condition. She uses spacing to show the start and end of her ordeal, drawing the reader to pay special attention to those parts. Although this poem is about a specific topic, it is not presented as so. The speaker was cryptic enough for the experience to be taken for something else, for example a nightmare, yet still reveling enough for the readers to know that her experience is not pleasant. The ending of the poem is less dramatic than that beginning, giving detail and showing that her experience is, to her, normal.