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could you pleasa tell me what is the difference between poem and prose
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Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech. The word prose comes from the Latin prosa, meaning straightforward, hence the term "prosaic," which is often seen a perjorative. Prose describes the type of writing that prose embodies, unadorned with obvious stylistic devices. Prose writing is usually adopted for the description of facts or the discussion of whatever one's thoughts are, incorporated in free flowing speech.

Poetry (from the Greek "poiesis", a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.
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POEM-A piece of literature written in metric verse.Poem is verbal composition charecterised by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power.
PROSE-Ordinary speech or writing or direct,straghtforward arrangement of words.

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Anything that is NOT a poem is prose.
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