Clive,
Many thanks for posting this. Haven't had time to read throroughly, but I know line breaking is a topic which causes anxiety to many free-versers. (Maybe there are a few who give it less attention than they might!) Oddly enough, I'd been thinking of posting a poem of Judith Wright's on Musing which seems to me to begin as prose (not f.v) before settling into three stanzas with a clear accentual pattern (4,5,5,5) plus line 2/4 rhymes, followed by a couplet. Would much prefer the first eight lines to be set out as the prose I think they are. Might just post it now! Will meanwhile pop up your interesting essay.
Margaret.
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