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The Workshop · Free tool
Where does the line turn?
A line break is the one piece of punctuation only poems have. Line Break Lab reads every line ending in your draft and shows which ones close, which ones run on, and which ones go soft.
- Poetry
- Revision
- About 2 minutes
- Free
What it shows
- Weak endings
- Lines that close on a soft or throwaway word, where the break does no work.
- End-stops and run-ons
- Which lines close on punctuation and which pull the reader into the next.
- Line length
- Your average line, so you can see where the shape of the poem changes.
How to use it
- Paste a draft, or start from the sample poem.
- Read the flags on each line ending.
- Move one break, cut one soft word, and run it again. Watch what changes.
Line Break Lab runs on proesy.app. If it doesn't load here, use Open full screen.
