Good, we're down to one thread. That's useful.

One more thing (from the Tails warning page - see the part about "contextual identities"): If you don't want two accounts associated with each other, reboot your completely anonymous operating system between logging off from one and logging into the other. Tor tends to reuse the same pathways, and if traffic to two…

"So you are saying that the language something is composed of is not inherently poetic, no matter what the piece of literature is?"

As I said in my earlier reply in the other thread, I am not going to do an exhaustive sorting of every work into "prose" or "poetry."

"The shake-to-shuffle feature would be most useful when you're running."

The first one is clearly poetry, because the layout of the words themselves are a structure contrived to convey the poem's central meaning - that of "loneliness" - The fragments of the word "loneliness" are separated and fragmented by spacing and fragments of other words to create an impression of loneliness. That is…

"You suggest that normal speech, or well-written prose, does not contain meter, rhyme, etc. and that poetry cannot contain sentences or paragraphs."

And to be snarky and misinterpet you the way you misinterpreted me, "So poetry cannot be in the form of a play? Have you ever seen a play?"

EE Cummings wrote poetry; let me give you an example of why "A Pretty A Day" is poetry.

This work contains a beginning, middle, and end.

There has to be some objective standard as to what is a poem, and what is prose.

"No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job." - T.S. Eliot

There's a difference between prose form and poetic form. "Paragraphs" are prose form.

I think you're misreading what I wrote.

I'll concede to "any rigidly defining characteristic of poetry [is] obsolete."

I get that.

I know wakers01 has already asked, but I'll bite too.

I agree. "Literary art written using rhyme, meter, metaphor, or some other poetic device," is not only outdated as a definition of poetry, it is vague, and includes a lot more prose than even the poetry it excludes.

Yes, I have. But if this is free verse, then where does the line between free verse and prose lie?

I see no rhyme, no meter, no metaphor, no poetic devices at all.