Extended verse line exceeds conventional length for emphasis, as in Ginsberg’s “Howl”: “who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford’s floated out and sat through the stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi’s””; In Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road,” lines stretch: “You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you”; Another: “The train roars through the valley, past the abandoned mill, the rusted swing set, the church with its steeple leaning like a tired old man”