What's the diffrence between poetry and delineated prose?

[Seraphim]

Don't even start on found poems

Lol

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When it comes to form I was thinking not of specific forms like the sonnet but of the form of all poetyry except when poetry becomes a novel or a short story. I was thinking soecifically of how it functions eg, as a book of poems or as a single poem posted in a magazine or today as poems are presented on forums or ezines. They are all ( there are exceptions) presented as short, usually no more than a page or at most two or three. So that is their form, whether free verse or whatever. And I think 'the medium is the message' to an extent. But we could argue till the cows come home about poetry/prose. Many novelists saturate their novels with poetic devices and I often, as you have above, noticed a paragrapth in a novel that could be taken out and presented as a poem. Kingsley Amis is one such author, his novels abound in poetic writing.

OK. I get you.

But for transparency’s sake, the writing I offered above should be credited to Annie Finch. It’s a poem entitled “Sanhaim”, and a fine example of iambic pentameter, should I put the line breaks back in place. The idea I was trying to get across was that poetry is poetry despite the form. But since I mistook your post, it seems the example is moot.