By the way, I'm quite familiar with handling poetry and I've done it as an editor as well as a writer. Some things you might find helpful:
1) The Dwarf Stars Award is for short-short poetry of 10 lines or less. That might make a good benchmark for things that are short enough to require a cluster for a fill, rather than a single item as a fill. Haiku, tanka, triolet, and indriso are some short-short forms.
2) Most short-short poems are one verse. That's another way you could distinguish between what's a fill by itself and what needs to be a set for a fill. The indriso is one of the rare shorts that has multiple verses: 3 lines, 3 lines, 1 line, 1 line. The others I mentioned are all singles.
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Date: 2012-08-13 04:29 am (UTC)By the way, I'm quite familiar with handling poetry and I've done it as an editor as well as a writer. Some things you might find helpful:
1) The Dwarf Stars Award is for short-short poetry of 10 lines or less. That might make a good benchmark for things that are short enough to require a cluster for a fill, rather than a single item as a fill. Haiku, tanka, triolet, and indriso are some short-short forms.
2) Most short-short poems are one verse. That's another way you could distinguish between what's a fill by itself and what needs to be a set for a fill. The indriso is one of the rare shorts that has multiple verses: 3 lines, 3 lines, 1 line, 1 line. The others I mentioned are all singles.