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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not so much "weird" as just plain "wrong". "Poetry" is a description of the form, not the content. The content can be anything at all. Consider, for example, Lucretius's "De Rerum Natura" - "On the Nature of Things"; a physics textbook written in poetry.
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nope, the form is metrified verse
poetry isn't about verse, thought it can use it, as well as metric, rhymes etc
yes, most classic epic poetry is really prose in verse and conversely your examples are not poetry, they are textbooks in verse
poetry is not easy to define, but it certainly has to do with language, form and semantics. I like to define it as sculpting with words. the end sculpture may even be completely abstract, with not a hint of fiction or narrative at all, even though completely made out of words...