User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-95.145.155.227-20171125234745/@comment-6032121-20181219134102

The course of action seems to be transparently obvious, and indeed has already been suggested without much objection.

Start from the premise that being in verse does not preclude being narrative (hi, said the Illiad and the Odyssey), and that Now We Are Six Hundred is a big collection of unrelated stories (because it is: obviously Verity has very little to do with anything else in the book).

Then run individual poems through the 4 little rules and find, firstly, which tell stories (short though they might be) and which are just musings; and secondly, which of those that are left break the 4th wall.