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To: 1rudeboy

With the semicolon at the end of the line, the comma before “though” is unnecessary, grammatically. (Like the one I just used before “grammatically” ;-). The author could have included it as a vocalization cue, or just because that’s the way he would write prose.


27 posted on 12/31/2009 8:41:01 AM PST by Tax-chick (Yo quiero a bailar en Mexico.)
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To: Tax-chick
That's the point: poets intend their punctuation to be a cue for the reader (it's not a matter of grammar).

I don't feel like pulling out all of my print versions of this poem, but I'll wager that there is no comma there because Frost didn't want one there.

29 posted on 12/31/2009 8:44:03 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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