09-19-2023, 07:56 AM
People fall all over themselves trying to define what a poem is. I have a very pragmatic method: If it's got less than 200 words, it's a poem; and if it's got more than a thousand it's fiction. (People who write long poems may want to cheat and bump those numbers up a bit.) For that stuff in the middle, you may want to use a term like prose-poem, but I say just flip a coin. And don't go bringing up stuff like the Iliad; unless you believe in those Greek gods, it's definitely fiction. The cool thing about this method is that it's correct about 95% of the time. 95% is more than good enough for me.
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