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At the Year-End William He	Who can untie to stretch a little and further a skein of puppet, These hands and feet as to a requiem where the chorus...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Garden Ezra Pound	Samain...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things William Ernest Henley	Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Plantation Portrait Paul Laurence Dunbar	An' huh haih a woolly skein, Black an' plain, Hol's you wid a natchul twis' Close to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Octopus Marianne Moore	endless skein swayed by the wind, immune to force of gravity in the perspective of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At Utter Loaf James Whitcomb Riley	Above me drifts the fallen skein Of some tired spider, looped and blown, As fragile as a strand of rain, Across the air, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballade Of Truisms William Ernest Henley	There are knots in every...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Celebration David Smalling	The stars like minstrels play Our destiny like a skein entangled in life's twine Better dryads lighthearted in their trees Better than passion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chains John Giordano	tear free this iron skein Do you struggle, oh love of mine at the end of destiny's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman William Butler Yeats	The sooner love is gone, For love is but a skein unwound Between the dark and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
De Profundis Clamavi Charles Baudelaire	So slowly is the skein of time...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Delight is as the flight Emily Dickinson	As the Schools would say— The Rainbow's way— A Skein Flung colored, after Rain, Would suit as bright, Except that flight Were...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ellen McJones Aberdeen William Schwenck Gilbert	Stick a skein in his hose - wear an acre of stripes - But he cannot assume an affection for...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eternal Waltz of Hearts: A Love Story Written in the Stars , Part II Mawphniang Napoleon	I would someday unravel love's skein with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From Egmont Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	CLARA winds a skein, and sings with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How a Little Girl Danced Vachel Lindsay	A white bird escaping the earth's tangled skein:— The music of God is her innermost brooding, The whispering angels her footsteps...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Intriguer Albeej A	Auburn hair dangles like a skein, loosely draped over both...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha Robert Browning	Now, they prick pins at a tissue Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar's Worked on the bone of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Moment Within Kennet Benoit-Hutchins	Innocence What quickness lies beneath your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Monsieur Qui Passe Charlotte Mary Mew	I left to her the twisted skein, Though here and there I caught a thread,-- Something, at first, about "the lamps along the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On The Bus Aldous Leonard Huxley	And the smoke of me streams out In a vanishing skein of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Recycle time Nick Nuzzo	to you hoping that you hear my words on the skein of electromagnetic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman	The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots, The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Angel In The House. Book II. Canto I. Coventry Patmore	’ ‘Would I ‘Hold out this skein of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The City Clocks Padraic Colum	That Time and Place are a tangled skein Their mingled strokes say over...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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What is the term for the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

A A turn

B Enjambment

C Line break

D Dithyramb