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Unread 08-03-2001, 03:24 PM
Caleb Murdock Caleb Murdock is offline
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Those enjambments don't strike me as particularly extraordinary. In both cases, Robinson broke the lines before prepositional phrases, not an uncommon place to do that. I find the enjambment between the final two lines of the poem to be much more interesting.

But I'm glad you brought this subject up. Years ago I read a horrible poem written in a rhymed form by one of the doyenne's of free-verse immastery. She broke the lines any old place in order to achieve the rhymes. When I get home from work, I'll post that poem as an example of where NOT to break lines.
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