irishfolksuicide9 Feb 2004

The first two lines of this are made up of a premise, and a question predicated on given premise ---> pause

It is not unreasonable for the reader to make the same pause at the end of the second two lines.

Also as the brain organises stimuli together, things that rhyme will also tend towards forming their own discrete block.

The combination of expecting a couplet, line break and rhyme really do I think signal to the reader, end.

I can read it better if sunk starts the fifth line.