one or more sentences written without attention paid to meter, such as the one you’re reading right now. Poetry in strict metric format, such as a sonnet, is the opposite of prose.

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1. one or more sentences written without attention paid to meter, such as the one you’re reading right now. Poetry in strict metric format, such as a sonnet, is the opposite of prose.