poetry and capital letters?

Question

what effect does it give if there is a capital letter at the beginning of each sentance but no t always full stops on the sentance before

Answer 1

run on lines to an extent but it separates them and gives it a personal touch!!

Answer 2

Yes a capital letter can mean a new idea like it does in prose. However there is a sort of convention (I have never seen it written down) that rhyming poems have capital letters at the beginning of a line what ever the punctuation in the line before.

The situation with full stops is more complex. A full stop confers meaning. Leaving out a full stop can make something ambiguous. However most poets think very carefully about their punctuation so if they leave out a full stop it means they want that ambiguity . . . . . . which or course in a way confers more meaning!

Mmm. Hope that helps!

Answer 3

It is a convention that the first letter of a line of poetry is capitalized, regardless of whether it is the start o a sentence or not.
Many modern poets no longer follow this convention, but if you read Shakespeare, you can see which lines are verse and which are prose, by his use of capital letters.
Full stops show the end of the sentence; sometimes it will be at the end of line of poetry, but more often it will be more than a line, at the completion of the idea.

Answer 4

Capital letters usually signify that a new idea is beginning.
When a poet ends a sentence short and begins a new one, it usually means he/she wants to make sure the short idea is noticed by the reader. Or maybe emphasize that the poem has a different style than normal ones.

Answer 5

capital letters at the beginning of a new line may be used to influence the cadence of the poem.