Question

Punctuation Crisis - what type of punctuation should I use?

I'm writing a poem and I need some help with punctuation. The line is, "A vibrant world thrives far, wide, and free." I feel as if there should be some sort of punctuation between "thrives" and "far" but I'm not sure! Or, is it fine as it is? Help!

Answer 1

It's poetry! You have the right to have artistic liberties and decide what you think is right. If you are wanting to know what is grammatically correct however, a comma is fine.

Explanation:

Depending on the tone of your poem, you can pick whatever looks good to you. You could go with something like this:

A vibrant world thrives!
Far!
Wide!
Free!

or something like this:
A vibrant world thrives
far, wide, and free

It all just depends on how you want it to sound to the reader. When reading the first example, the reader would hear energy and passion, but in the second example, the reader would hear a calm, steady, smooth beat, like a drum. Hope this helps : )