Poem of the Uniqueness of the Right Margin

William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), "Madrigal."

Traditionally, the only secure distinction between verse and prose on the page lay in the irregularly of the right margin. The incomparability of any poem on the page also may lie in the uniqueness of its right margin. Here uniqueness is graphically figured by three trials.

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