>That's interesting. What do you mean by "turn on the linebreak"?
Well, I was playing off the meaning of 'verse,' but can also point you to
comments such as Denise Levertov's essay on the line, which Phyllis Webb
once talked to me & Stephen Scobie about at some length (that interview
appeared in an early issue of Writing magazine, I can't remeber the
number). There is a pause on the line break, & usually, perhaps always, a
change of pitch. So that turn should count, but a lot of writers seem to
ignore it, not to even notice that it's there, reading (or sounding) it as
a run-on, with no play on the pause. Why bother, then? If it's just broken
down prose you might as well write it out as prose...
Doug
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