WILLIAMSJI MAVELI'S POETIC INK VOL II

Prose and poetry are two ways of classifying types of inscription in poetry.  Sometimes we group poetry according to the topic theme such as fiction, non-fiction, mystery, drama, and so on, but here we're grouping it according to design and layout.  Fortunately, the dissimilarity between what is prose and what is poetry is usually attractive intrinsic and impulse on the theme itself.
Have you ever been to see a musical show at your nearby theater? If you have, you know how important it is to find the best place to sit in the rows of seats in front of the stage. In poetry, a line is kind of like a row of seats in a theater. Lines are the text that takes up one line, or row, in a poem.