Line Breaks
A line break is a poetic device that is used at the end of a line, and the beginning of the next line in a poem.
via literarydevices.net
Example
excerpt from “My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work” by Tiana Clark:
always popping there,
always my thoughts thump,
thump. I snooze — wake & go
boom. All day, like this I short
my breath. I scroll & scroll.
Prompt
Free write for 5 minutes, putting pen to paper, not stopping to edit or cross out anything. Take that block of writing and revise it into a poem experimenting with line breaks as you go. Try using very short lines. Try using very long lines. Read each version of the poem aloud and take note of the differences.
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