Analysis of How to End a Poem

There is no way to end a poem
  As it will end itself,
But if the pen won't stem its flow
  The guides below may help:
Like the plague or creeping pox
  Avoid a summary ending;
End your poem with images
  Or surprising anecdote,
Or words which echo or recall
  The sounds that went before;
Instead of floating freely
  Upon a brackish sea,
Anchor your poem securely
  In its reality;
Use an apt comparison
  Like a stardust stampede in the sky
Or a contrite choir of crickets;

Shock the complacent
  From their somnolence;
Close with musical chords
  Which promise a resolve.
There are as many ways to end
  A poem and yet there is not one
For poems will oft communicate
  Exactly when they're done.