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Compare and contrast poetry and prose.

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While prose is writing, poetry adds artistic style to writing. ... Poetry writers select their structure, rhyme scheme, pattern, and words with the purpose of arousing emotion. Rather than sentences and paragraphs, poetry uses lines, stanzas, verses, meter, stress, patterns, and rhythm.

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