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Topic : Re: How to show that one long line of poetry is only one line If I'm writing the following clerihew resume where I'm constrained to 40 characters per line. +----------------------------------------+ - selfpublishingguru.com

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Max Williams has given the best workaround with that indentation suggestion. However, one other possibility is to rearrange the items in the list, thereby producing more couplets that fit into the 40-character-line limit:

+----------------------------------------+
|Peter Turner |
|code burner: |
|perl, python, PHP, |
|java, tex, bash, and c, |
|object pascal, actionscript, |
|yml and javascript, |
|c++, html, |
|object pascal, yml. |
|All of these are his niche – |
|did I forget to mention tsch? |
+----------------------------------------+

(Of course, it's no longer a clerihew, so I've broken convention there, but I still couldn't help but wonder if those might fit into some more conventional prosodic form.)


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