More neat Clive stuff. It is cool to see the combining of metrical and non-met discussions.
I disagree with Carol - using line breaks to help emphasize a point seems similar to using substitutions to draw attention to a particular point in the poem.
I think line breaks can be very effective in pacing a poem, and I am currently playing around with using them to add multiple meanings (or give a greater depth) to a single line. It is especially hard in non-met to make every break "mean something" and all too often the place where I want to break the line looks unnatural on the page, so I'm forced to use a lesser break.
I would be interested in a deeper discussion on cadencing, specifically the construction of the line and use of caesura, punctuation, etc to control the flow of a poem. Seems like we don't pay enough attention to what our line breaks do (or do not) accomplish, and how pacing & white space can be used effectively. It's been hashed over a million times, but I feel that revisiting it would be interesting, especially from Clive's perspective.
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