What's the diffrence between poetry and delineated prose?

[rowens]

Form or structure. Type. Devices. All that. The language, the words, the sounds, the line breaks, the grammar, syntax, all that. Sonnet, free verse, prose paragraphs, all that. The form implies some context as much as the content. In a heavy way or light way. Heavy in an allusive or traditional or visual or oral way. Light in a nearly arbitrary choice of form. All that.