User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/New Year's special - LTDI update and preview/@comment-1153194-20110103023024/@comment-1874924-20110104222647

So, Sprink, you're not a fan of poetry? That would explain why you don't look up more of the TDI-G&S verse references than you do. No matter, readers who prefer to skip over the verses will, in most cases, be able to do so without missing important plot points. I expect it will be reasonably clear when a poem in LTDI is actually important to the story and when it's not.

If you've ever read Alice In Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass--both prose works with occasional poems--you'll have some idea of how I will be using verse in LTDI. (For the record, Alice In Wonderland is NOT my structural model for LTDI. I said it would be patterned after "one of the world's great literary classics", but that's not the one.)