Discussion on Poetics - split off from previous thread.

[Seraphim]

my definition of prose and poetry depends on the craft of poetics:  understanding how the English language is constructed, meter, rhythm, rhetorical devices, etc.

Interesting constraint here.

How do you [personally] create and develop rhythm in a line?

In a single line? It usually depends on the lines surrounding it. If the meter matters, I've usually preselected it. I would usually stick to some kind of tetrameter if I wanted to utilize a strict pattern, but a strict meter is rarely a requirement for any poem that doesn't mandate a form. I mean, if I'm writing a sonnet I'll try to stay on IP, but for something without a chosen form, I'll be fluid and adapt to the flow of the poem.

Am I writing about a lake? Vary the meter, be fluid -- ripples are like white noise.
Am I writing about ticking clocks? Iambic or trochaic -- regular ticks and tocks. Clock stops? End the line with a missing foot.
There's a bit of a craft involved, yes. But this just a matter of selection. Actually making the line? That's just what poetry always has been: finding the "right" words.

I ask about rhythm, you talk about meter. Are they the same thing? Is the implication here that non-metrical poetry has no rhythm?

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Busker

So what specifically is poetic about your example? [Question, not argument]