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In both examples each line contains a single thought that finishes with the line. This is called end-stopping, which we could mark like this. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall ⊡ I haven’t time to take your call right now ⊡
Stephen Fry • The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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I am always impressed by a well-written menu, one that is informative and appetizing without slipping into pretentious nonsense. Here, for example, is a London restaurant’s attempt to justify the exorbitant price of its whitebait: “The tiny fresh fish are tossed by our chef for a few fleeting seconds into a bath of boiling oil, and then removed bef
... See morePeter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
Bashō’s Narrow Road to the Deep North and Parkman’s The Oregon Trail (1849) to the great travel books of our own day: the vomiting camels of Thesiger’s Arabian Sands, the muddy Congo paths of Redmond O’Hanlon’s No Mercy, the flitting and plodding of Bruce Chatwin in Patagonia—and, I should add, to a lesser degree, nearly everything in travel that I
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