Why does a poet start every line of the poem with small letter instead of capital letter?
The standard rule of thumb is this: If the start of a line is also the start of a sentence then it should be capitalized. If the start of a line is a continuation or a sentence then it shouldn’t be capitalized. Examples from a poem: So much in love was I, at one time, that no cloud dared claim it’s birthright to hover above, no stone ever turned upward to obstruct my journey and angels large and small blushed from the path I took. From a different poem: Would their words aim towards a broader sight? Would they express anger at the plight of oppressed people, of greed’s forced pain, hypocrisy’s evil and war’s gain, or nature’s demise — worlds gone insane? (You’ll notice the second line in this stanza is capitalized because it is starting a new sentence.) And here is a third example: The guns spell money’s ultimate reason in letters of lead on the spring hillside. But the boy lying dead under the olive trees was too young and too silly to have been notable to their important eye. He was
