What's the difference between poetry and prose?

Answer 1

A lot of people try to write poems, that's why it's called poeTRY; but most of it is really prose. Just kidding.

Prose is the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.

Poetry is

1. the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
2. literary work in metrical form; verse.
3. prose with poetic qualities.

Isn't that last one interesting. Poetry is prose....weird huh.

Answer 2

Yeah; with reference to the previous correspondence, poetry can be considered to be a subset of prose; but one so far removed that it gains it can be in a dichotomy of its own altogether. Most people instinctively know something is prose when it's "not poetry". I'm serious XD

Hope that helped =P

Answer 3

They are two forms or styles of writting.
We normally write in prose: articles, essays, short stories, novels, letters, e-mails. Prose is written in sentences, paragraphs.

Poetry is written in verses, with (or without) metric and rhyme.