So I think basic education system failed me. I remember in school, we’re taught that poems needed to rhyme and that it needed a pattern for each verse. But then.. there’s free form poetry and there’s spoken word poetry..
What makes poetry different from descriptive sentences and from songs?
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I would say that a poem is distinct from a song in having no melody.
A poem is distinct from prose in that the sound made by the words is important to the piece. The obvious example is rhyme, but there could equally be alliteration, assonance, meter, rises and falls in intensity etc. Of course with spoken oratory there will be blurring at the edge cases between spoken poetry and straight speech that uses various devices to increase impact.
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