Do these two verses mean the exact same thing or does the period change it?

Question

Each artifact 

in his quest he finds

he analyzes.

Then he induces why

he's stunted.

Each artifact 

in his quest he finds

he analyzes

and then induces why

he's stunted.

Answer 1

Hi Ethan,

These two verses mean the same thing. The period doesn't change that.

However, the first verse (with the two periods) is actually written more grammatically correctly since the human subject of the verse does things in steps. Since the second/last step is "him" inducing why he's stunted, it is good for that step to be separated contextually from the first sentence and corresponding step(s) in the process of finding-analyzing-inducing via its own individual sentence as shown in the first version of the verse above.

The second verse is written as a run-on sentence since it doesn't contain any punctuation until the period at the very end.