Prose

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Prose is language that is natural or normal in structure: following the spontaneous flow of conversational speech, without any perfectly regular rhythm; containing ordinary grammar patterns; or, in writing, aligning to typical conventions and formatting. It thus can range in its exact medium from informal everyday speaking to formal academic writing. Prose differs most notably from poetry, which follows some type of contrived intentional rhythm or other artistically crafted structure or pattern. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language; in English poetry, for instance, language is often organized by a rhythmic metre or rhyme scheme. The day-to-day informal language of a region or community, and many other forms and styles of language usage, fall under prose, a label that can describe both speech and writing. In writing, poetry is traditionally written in a special format called verse: a series of lines stacked on top of one another on a page. This parallels how a person might read...

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