A cheerily rhyming analysis of the difference between ‘poetry’ and ‘verse’. I may have managed a few verses here and there among a number of ditties, but nothing that has passed this test and so qualifies as poetry.
Copyright: Bill Stanton, www.billstanton.co.uk and D.M. Stanton, J.A. Hughes-Jones, A.K. Stanton
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A response
Just this once
To one, who in a manner rather terse
Wanted to know the difference between poetry and verse:
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Verse
Covers the whole gamut from superb to very much worse;
Poetry, since it would seem that one must be equally terse,
Is also verse,
But verse which (rhyme or no rhyme)
Has passed the test of discrimination acclaim and time.
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So, until your verse has (and you will never know it),
DON’T, please, call yourself a POET!Â
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