What do the line breaks in poems do?

@Gargamel,

Thank you so much Gargamel.
Off the top of your head I don't suppose you have an example of a poet being 'too cute with enjambents'?

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@The Pentacle Queen,

Oddly, I couldn't find what I was looking for to illustrate line endings that create an image, but maybe if you find some ee cummings...

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@Lash,

Code:

The Mouse's Tale



            Fury said to a mouse,

                 That he met in the

                        house, 'Let us

                           both go to law:

                            I will prosecute

                          you.-- Come, I'll

                         take no denial;

                       We must have

                     a trial: For

                   really this

                 morning I've

               nothing to do.'

                   Said the mouse

                         to the cur,

                           'Such a trial,

                              dear Sir, With

                                  no jury or

                                judge, would

                               be wasting

                           our breath.'

                        'I'll be

                   judge, I'll

                 be jury,'

               Said cunning

             old Fury:

                'I'll try

                  the whole

                    cause, and

                        condemn

                            you

                              to

                               death.'



-- Lewis Carroll

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Awesome, George!!

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@Lash,

Ol' Lewis must have given his typesetters fits.

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. . . and one of my favorites by e.e. cummings

Code:

      Buffalo Bill's

 	defunct

 	       who used to

 	       ride a watersmooth-silver

 	                                stallion

 	and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat

 	                                                 Jesus

 	he was a handsome man

 	                     and what i want to know is

 	how do you like your blueeyed boy

 	Mister Death

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@George,

Love that one.

Gargamel's posts here are fantastic.

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I seek answers
But ask no questions
I seek truth
But reveal no lies
But this I seek above all else
Put away all modest requests
Resonance
To all emotions that within me dwell

This one is home made, and I've posted it on a2k before. But if I were to write it out...

I seek answers, but ask no questions.
I seek truth, but reveal no lies....

I am no expert, but when put like that, it feels to me as if the seeking is given a smaller place in the imagery, crowded by the telling of action.

And "resonance". That had to be on a line of it's own, ressonating..

Hope it helped Smile

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

. . . Gargamel's posts here are fantastic.

Second that. Thanks, Gargles!

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