Funny, isn't it ~ I unquestioningly accepted that the lines "I am a real
poet" etc were by Kenneth Koch, but now I see that the lineation is all
wrong for him: it's the sort of thing he writes (as in _The Artist_ for
instance), but he writes longer, more gesticulative lines, even when he uses
enjambments they are not artfully avoidant of rhetorical emphasis. You might
say that O'Hara took Verlaine's line "take rhetoric and twist its neck"
seriously, whereas K.K. says "but it's fun, let's just kick it about a bit".
Both uses of the line of verse ("turn, turn, turn") tend to refrain from
regular metre (except when K.K. is doing the Ariosto thing) but stand out as
totally unprosaic.
Martin
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