: Re: Are run-on sentences always bad? (TW, depression related stuff?) In my AP Lang class, we've recently started an activity called Visiting Author, where a student does a cold read of a piece they

Run on sentences are sentences without a pause. No place to take a breath.

By using what might otherwise be a run on sentence as free verse poetry, you are creating those pauses.

You have some commas in there, which always helps, but it's the line breaks that really give you a place to breathe. Commas alone (or commas plus dashes and semi-colons) aren't enough breathing space for a very long expression. You need those periods. A line break (or stanza break) isn't punctuation per say, but it acts as such in a poem.

Poems don't have to conform to the same grammar restrictions of prose.

Giving the illusion of a single thought without a break, while simultaneously providing those breaks, is a very effective use of language.

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