Talk:Stephen King vs Edgar Allan Poe/@comment-24993461-20140602022254/@comment-7442055-20140602024401

Someone pointed out the reason for that already. Poe believed that literary works should be shorter (short enough to be read in one sitting), while King is on the opposite philosophy, believing that a reasonable length for a novel is 180,000 words. So it'll make sense that Poe's verses would be shorter than King's.

http://itsnotlate.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/summary-of-the-philosophy-of-composition/

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/11/writers-on-writing-on-writing-by-stephen-king