A period or an exclamation mark can be thought of as a complete stop, while a comma, in contrast, would be a half-stop. The punctuation marks in poetry tell us how the author wishes the work to be read. Pay attention to the punctuation the author uses, ending a line only when the punctuation indicates it is correct to do so.
Poetry will make a great deal more sense to you if you read it in a normal speaking tone, letting the accents fall where they seem natural.
THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY: TYPES OF VERSE AND RHYTHMįrom the very first poems, oral accounts of adventures we date from the eighth century, an individual line of poetry has been the basic unit we recognize as "poetic." Up until the time of Walt Whitman's revolutionary poetic experiments, we were even able to say that a poem ''looked like a poem," by which we meant that the lines stood apart in a certain recognizable manner and did net run together like a prose paragraph.
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