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Content A classic case of unintentional "poetic prose" can be found in Whewell's <span style="font-style: italic;">Mechanics</span>, a nineteenth-century technological work. Rendered as a quatrain, the sentence reads:<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> There is no force, however great, <br/>     Can stretch a cord, however fine, <br/>     Into a horizontal line<br/> Which is accurately straight.<br/> </div> <br/> A classic case of unintentional "poetic prose" can be found in Whewell's <span style="font-style: italic;">Mechanics</span>, a nineteenth-century technological work. Rendered as a quatrain, the sentence reads:<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 40px;"> There is no force, however great, <br/>     Can stretch a cord, however fine, <br/>     Into a horizontal line<br/> Which is accurately straight.  <img width="20" height="13" src="/EPS/pictures/Image/EckE.gif" alt=""/></div>

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