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- poetry
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- different from
- poetic prose
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Encyclopedic overview
Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) by Aloysius Bertrand, one of the first western instances of prose poetry. Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form while otherwise deferring to poetic devices to make meaning.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “prose poetry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.