Thankyou for the answers...and time.
I have been using one-word-lines more often lately, free-verse specifically, and I understand "meaty" words/lines; it is the nanoseconds, the slight pauses after lines, that I refered by accelerated reading. Speaking from my personal view point, although -- not a formally educated one, I find short lines and one word lines have an informal quality, a very narrative and light quality. Is it likely, that use of quick or repetitious pauses (and not necessarily one-word-lines) could advance the interests, and the excitability of the reader further into a piece?
Converse to this: How does punctuation affect the pauses? By inserting long lines in repetition, and controlling reading flow, could I not, reasonably, accentuate a feeling in my poems?
Whether it works or doesn't is mute.
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