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need look no further—
I ascend
through
a canopy of leaves
and at the same time
I descend
for I do nothing
unusual—
I ride in my car
I think about
prehistoric caves
in the Pyrenees—
the cave of
Les Trois Freres
The nature of the difference between what is termed prose on the one hand and verse on the other is not to be discovered by a study of the metrical characteristics of the words as they occur in juxtaposition. It is ridiculous to say that verse grades off into prose as the rythm becomes less and less pronounced, in fact, that verse differs from prose in that the meter is more pronounced, that the movement is
