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6152, The Sonic Level (sounds like a video game, lol)
Posted by delrica, Tue Apr-08-03 06:33 AM
Prose Poetry

Some nonmetrical systems for writing poetry are based upon constructional schemes - sets of correlated things such as grammatically parallel sentence structures - and these systems ought properly to be considered as prose prosidies when verse systems are not in use for structuring poems. Parallel sence structures are constructional schemes, and the prosody that uses them is called grammatical parallelism.

Proportion by treatment has to do with choosing the meters, forms, length of lines, stanzas and strophes to suit the architectonics (the overall structure) of the whole poem in order to treat the subject of the poem in an appropriate and effective manner.

Prose poems written in parallel structures will set up prose rhythms that have some of the effect of verse, but they will not be free verse because verse is metered language and prose is not. Amy Lowell (1874-1925) called prose poetry that utilized many sonic devices polyphonic prose rahter than "free" verse.

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