This article examines two related matters that have heretofore received little attention in the scholarly literature. The first is whether the division into stanzas shown on the page always reflects the thematic and formal structure of the poem. For instance, may 8-line stanzas with a repeated rhyme scheme (such as ababcdcd) in fact represent pairs of quatrains arbitrarily joined together? Conversely, are there cases when a poem written in couplets actually consists of 4-line or 6-line stanzas that have been divided? The second issue is whether a poet’s decision to write verse in which stanzas are not demarcated on the page leads to works that differ in their formal features from those where the stanzas are (as is more typically the case) separated by blank lines. The latter portion of the article shows the effects of this decision in the verse of Aleksandr Kushner.

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分离还是不分离：节的边界和诗意的结构

本文研究了迄今为止在学术文献中很少受到关注的两个相关问题。第一个是页面上显示的节段是否始终反映了该诗的主题和形式结构。例如，具有重复韵律方案的8行节（例如ababcdcd）是否实际上代表任意组合的四行绝句？相反，在某些情况下，用对联写成的诗实际上是由四行或六行节分割而成的吗？第二个问题是，诗人是否决定在诗句中未标出节的诗句是否导致作品的形式特征与节（用格线分隔）更不同。