Citation counting woes: Is one stanza one paragraph?
This is regarding the way we count paragraphs (within a chapter) for citation purposes.
Escaping Peril, chapter 10, paragraph 88 is when Moon recounts her prophecy (print p.137). It's eight lines long and is all in one "row" - there are no blank lines between "stanzas". (Compare this to "The Jade Mountain Prophecy" inset right before the prologue, where the first and last four lines are divided, a blank line between.)
The citation in question (Peril#Life ref. 1) I think is miscounted anyway, because it doesn't quite line up whether the prophecy is considered one paragraph or eight, but it is closer if we consider it one. (I think they're referring to paragraph 143: "Oh, really? [...] You're my father?" or maybe 141: "[...] it appears that I can father dragonets with firescales.")
So anywho, when it comes to a prophecy or a song or a poem, when the text is indented and in italics and one written line per spoken line of the piece, should we consider all the lines together as one paragraph? If they are broken into stanzas, should we consider each stanza its own paragraph? (Disclaimer: I have no idea if that ever happens in the books. I thought Cliff's song, Escaping Peril, chapter 13, paragraph 61, was split in stanzas, but... it isn't!)
Without any objection, I'll be following ^the above guideline (one stanza = one paragraph). Nebula (talk) 23:31, 21 December 2024 (UTC)