Abstract
Poems are written in lines, which may have a certain rhythm or metre. If a natural meaning break comes at the end of the line we call it end-stopped:
My love is like a red red rose,
that’s newly sprung in June.
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From Elaine Feinstein, ‘The First Siren’, in The Celebrants (London: Hutchinson, 1973).
Frances Stillman, Poet’s Manual and Rhyming Dictionary (London: Thames and Hudson, 1966).
Mimi Khalvati, ‘Rubaiyat’ in Persian Miniatures (Huddersfield: Smith-Doorstop, 1989).
‘Psalm’ by Maria Eugenia Bravo Calderara in Prayer in the National Stadium (London: Katabasis, 1992).
Dylan Thomas, The Poems 1934–53 (London: Everyman Classic edition, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1982).
Cántico Cósmico by Ernesto Cardenal (Managua: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1989). The Music of the Spheres is a translation of one cantiga of the Cosmic Canticle by D. L. (London: Katabasis, 1990).
Example I is ‘Titus and Berenice’ by John Heath-Stubbs in Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 1988).
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Livingstone, D. (1993). The Poem’s Shape. In: Poetry Handbook. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22398-5_3
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