Maybe a little more about structure.
In your essay in the adjacent Narrative thread, you point out that "verse is often more cinematic than prose." Have the movies greatly affected the structure of successful narrative poems written today (particularly quite long ones such as some of those you've written), as compared to narrative poems written, say, a hundred years ago? (For example, do story lines now tend to jump around more, like cutting in a movie, rather than proceeding in a linear fashion? Are successful narrative poets more likely now to use phrases or images that recur in a poem like echoes, just as images or sounds are made to echo sometimes in different parts of a movie?)
Perhaps the upcoming Story Line anthology you mentioned will show some patterns regarding what story structures are now being used most successfully in poems.
In any case, are there certain set structures for the story in a narrative poem that you've found have worked for you over and over, or is the story structure quite different each time, depending upon the story you're telling?
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