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Q&A Usage of commas in poetry

I wrote a piece of poetry for one of my short stories (the main character, Eri, writes poems). It's the following: Eri, did you feel the earthquake last night? Are you really sure your ap...

3 answers  ·  posted 11y ago by Alexandro Chen‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Question poetry punctuation
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:06:32Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/9023
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Alexandro Chen‭ · 2019-12-08T03:06:32Z (about 5 years ago)
I wrote a piece of poetry for one of my short stories (the main character, Eri, writes poems). It's the following:

> **Eri,** did you feel the earthquake last night?
> 
> Are you really sure your apartment's alright?
> 
> In which planet where you wandering when it came?
> 
> Is reality and the world as you know still the same?

I have my doubts as to whether to put a comma after **Eri**. Seems to stop the whole flow. Or maybe that kind of punctuation is invisible in poetry?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2013-09-27T13:36:46Z (about 11 years ago)
Original score: 0