I think peom is quite tricky to defineand basically comes down to the writers intention. There isn't an obvious grammatic rule you could use. There's plenty of stuff that's considered poerty that has neither regular metre or rhyme. And there's prose that does. Probably. I dunno. It's all just words. Gay words with pink fullstops.
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rob,
Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:15,
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you're missing my point:there is prose that reads like poetry and poetry that reads like prose. Therefore it's the authors intention that makes it one or the other. Yes there are conventions - but there is plenty of stuff that doesn't conform.
( rob,
Fri 7 Mar 2003, 2:20,
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