Poems have stanzas and lines. Line breaks help
you convey your poem’s message. To help you
decide where and when to end each line in your
poem, use the following tips.
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Breath—consider where a person would
logically stop to breathe.
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Meaning–break your line so that someone else
would know how to read it the way you want.
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End-stopped lines—this occurs when there is a
natural pause to a line such as a period or a
comma.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
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Strong words—make sure that you don’t let
your lines end in weak words like articles: the,
an. Pick out a nice strong word, often a noun,
adjective, verb, or adverb.
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Enjambment—(pronounced en-jam’ment or as it
sounds, en-jamb-ment is where the meaning
carries over onto the next line.
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
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Here, Herrick interrupts the phrase "worst times"
with a line break between "worst" and "times,"
focusing extra attention on the word "worst."
A
Bouquet
Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow
Langston Hughes
B
Bouquet
Gather
quickly
Out of darkness
All the
songs you
Know and throw them
at the sun before they melt
Like snow
Langston Hughes
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