10-13-2026, 11:23 PM
Is it really a sestina if sentences continue across notional stanzas? I find the blank lines somewhat distracting as they aren't really (functionally) stanza breaks at all, just (from the perspective of meaning) apparently arbitrary blank lines in what would otherwise be a continuous free verse poem. So I feel it would work just as well for the reader without the blank lines.
"Whenever you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover" J. K. Galbraith, The Observer, 21 June 1998