What Poems Are and How They Work

Module 1 Quiz

10 min
Question 1 of 520%

A poet writes a short piece describing a rainstorm. She arranges each sentence as a full grammatical unit ending at the right margin, with no deliberate line breaks, no compression, and no image that asks the reader to make a leap. What is missing that would most clearly make this a poem rather than prose?

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