What happens when the line break starts to change?
When syllables slide out, or slide back in,
Stanzas and whole rhyme schemes rearrange,
And different sorts of meter start to spin?
Does all emotion have to change as well?
Can longer lines not have a lighter sense,
Or can a shorter meter never tell
A story dark and deep, or strong and dense?
Are those assumptions which first seize the mind
On noticing the weighting of the line
Fixed for eternity, or can we find
A space to alter them? Does a design
Inherently bear meaning? No, I hope,
For I like pushing meter past its scope.
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