class notes
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Ways to Break Up Monotony:

#1 Shifting up meter once it’s been esta. for effect
Pay attn to “the sound of sense” – the sound beyond what the words are saying

#2 caesura-hard stop in the middle   of the line
Effect = makes the reader keep going rather than giving up

#3 Lines that run on and on – creates flow; enjambing lines rather than resigning oneself to stultifying breaks, rather than resigning oneself to failure even if when one is secretly afraid one’s actually already failed. Gives thoughts different sizes, shapes, weights because it’s not the meter that traps you;
it’s when you try to constrain each thought into just 1 line.