One obvious example of this is the difference between end-stopped lines and lines that exhibit weaker and stronger kinds of enjambment. |
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These two kinds of periodicity may coincide, as in carefully end-stopped lines, or in the formulae chosen over centuries by the bards of oral traditions. |
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But Verlaine's quadrisyllabic lines, which know when to run on and when to be end-stopped, triumph with their carefully wrought musicality. |
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One sore point in this debut collection is his end-stopped, largely exact rhyme. |
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