expressions - poetic effect of segmentation of a group of words


Some poems break a sentence or a clause into two lines at the middle of one meaning group of words, like -


... a blue
sky and ...


What effect such an irregular line break has?


Mr. Garrison Keillor usually ignores such line breaks when reading poems in the Writer's Almanac radio program.




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