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 need look no further— I ascend

through a canopy of leaves

and at the same time I descend

for I do nothing unusual—

I ride in my car I think about

prehistoric caves in the Pyrenees—

the cave of Les Trois Freres

The nature of the difference between what is termed prose on the one hand and verse on the other is not to be discovered by a study of the metrical characteristics of the words as they occur in juxtaposition. It is ridiculous to say that verse grades off into prose as the rythm becomes less and less pronounced, in fact, that verse differs from prose in that the meter is more pronounced, that the movement is