Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever.
B. M. BOWER
B. M. BOWER
B. M. Bower on breath
B. M. Bower1 quotes“Everything holds its breath except spring. She burts through as strong as ever.”
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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