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Poetry: Dividing poems into lines

By Robert Stone

Haiku are brief poems. The 5-7-5 syllable count is a common one but some writers vary this. Tradition also would like the first line to reference something in nature. I like the thought to fall into three parts represented by the three lines but sometimes that just doesn't happen.
Nature nod, three lines,
seventeen syllable count,
nice but just one way.
I also try to make my sonnets divide by stanzas and also partly but not always by lines. But many years ago I deliberately had a sonnet printed as four sentences with no line breaks. - Robert Stone

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