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Alineation vs Lineation - What's the difference?

alineation | lineation |

As nouns the difference between alineation and lineation

is that alineation is while lineation is lineation.

lineation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) A linear feature in rock, often structural
  • magnetic lineations
  • (literature) The way in which line breaks are inserted in a poem
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry citation
  • , passage=Lineation is very much a matter of syntax, organizing the poem's grammar across its lines in ways significant and central to the poem's meaning.}}