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Stephen Jones
Member

since 2000-02-26

Posts 53

0 posted 2000-02-27 04:41 PM

I need to ask a question.
It's about my line divisions.
Is there anyone who might advise
to help avert incisions
executed prematurely
thus curtailing longer verse?
The width of window space to me
obtrudes the minor curse
of intersecting lines
of good octameter that flow.
The strain of breaking lines
involuntarily must show.
More than just annoying
it infringes natural art.
Should anything be broken
that's not broken in the heart?
This forum is the greatest
and I love to banter here.
So grant a friendly word
to help preserve what I hold dear.
If not, I'll have to butcher
surgerizing as I sit
and fracture my poetics
just to make them somehow fit!

(My computer/ browser will not let me adjust the width of the window where poetry is typed. I'm having to break lines unintentionally. Does anyone else have this problem? Any comment will be appreciated)

thanks, Stephen.

[This message has been edited by Stephen Jones (edited 02-27-2000).]

Little_Spyro
Senior Member

since 2000-01-09

Posts 659
San Diego, CA, USA

1 posted 2000-02-27 05:06 PM

Well, if I could address a problem as well as you! I like the meter on this!

I sometimes have that problem, but I almost never type lines much longer than the space given. You can adjust the space where you can type, but the site has to give an option for that. Mail.com offers it, and that's the only way I know how to adjust the space.

Sorry I couldn't help...

Little Spyro T. Dragon

Sasikat
Member

since 2000-02-02

Posts 290
St. Petersburg, FL

2 posted 2000-02-27 05:46 PM

Hi Stephen,
Haven't run across that problem here yet, but if I do and figure it out, I'll let ya know. Enjoyed the poetic description of the troubles you have.

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-02-27 09:11 PM

I don't know the answer either but I wanted to say that this is a great poem!!

Denise

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