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What is the difference between poetry and prose

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Poetry has an ordered structure where as  prose does not. A prose has no Structure and poety does
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The divisions between poetry and prose aren't clear-cut, but here are some generally accepted differences. The language of prose is typically straightforward without much decoration. Ideas are contained in sentences that are arranged into paragraphs. There are no line breaks.
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