prose poem

American  

noun

1. a composition written as prose but having the concentrated, rhythmic, figurative language characteristic of poetry.

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prose poem British  

noun

1. a prose composition characterized by a poetic style

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Etymology

Origin of prose poem

First recorded in 1835–45

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Example Sentences

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prose poem

It reads like a prose poem Wiggins wrote to predict what was coming in her own life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

Of these maddening outcomes she writes in a prose poem: “This discord is so ancient it makes fossils of us all, a history no longer entirely our own & yet only ours, never understood.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021

But I’ll tell you this, Laura Kolbe’s prose poem “Buried Abecedary for Intensive Care” is a poem of these times.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

Very quickly O’Meara’s 113-word prose poem became a communal beacon of hope, attracting the attention of Oprah and opera and thousands more.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2020

Indeed the French Revolution is usually, and very properly, spoken of and thought of, as a prose poem, if prose poem there can be.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison

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