Isn't there a form like this?
I tried this once:
http://www.badstep.net/text/poetry/estaury/fox.html
On 3/23/07, meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Outside of quotes and epigrammatic titles does anyone read poetry
> inserted into the body of prose, like in a novel? I know this is
> heresy for this list but I find my eyes tend to skip over it
> automatically, and on with the story or scene and stuff, for having
> to change gear (down or up) in order to give the poem justice my
> readerly instincts just can not often be bothered. (And no I am not a
> skim reader)
>
> Does anyone else do this?
>
> I ask because I am considering some poetic form for some particular
> reason in the work I am currently writing (fat alt.colonial
> spec.fiction) and wondered if this was a bad idea considering I just
> skip the things myself. Is it just me?
>
> Should I ignore line breaks and run the poems into prose paragraphs
> with some adjusting punctuation (maybe trad slashes?)
>
> ideas?
>
> I'm just thinking aloud I guess.
>
> meika
>
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