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Length of breath/pause with a longer dash. Read some -- Emily Dickinson poems – you'll find a world ––– of meaning ––– in the millimeter.

• theelous3 2y ago
  I have read her in the past and can't say there were world's of meaning between -'s. Can you link an example? I looked again and couldn't see any obvious ones. Generally she just completely abused the -. Does she even use a comma once? lol
  • efilife 2y ago
    worlds. world's would indicate that a world owns something. Also, you can just write -s instead of -'s as the apostrophe indicates possession
    • pc86 2y ago
      Exactly the type of comment I'd expect to see on an HN discussion about different types of dashes.
• handoflixue 2y ago
  Poetry routines breaks grammar rules. A lot of poems rely on very specific white space layouts that you'd never see in writing. And your example shows how you can just use multiple dashes instead of having three different ones.