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A.

I propose to take the narrower definition of poetry. Poetry
and prose are not antithetical words, for there may be great poetry in
great prose. The French word poésie is frequently applied to prose
compositions. You remember Sir Philip Sidney's words, "It is not rhyming
and versifying that maketh poesy. One may be a poet without versing,
and a versifier without Poetry". The true differentiation is between
prose on the one hand and verse or metre on the other. But for our
purpose today I propose to take poetry in the narrower sense, as involving
some kind of ordered rhythmical pattern - which, if
printed in the ordinary prose fashion, would lose something of its
effect.