How would you describe poetry?

Poetry is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. ... These poems, however, still have a rhythmic quality and seek to create beauty through their words. The opposite of poetry is “prose” – that is, normal text that runs without line breaks or rhythm. This article, for example, is written in prose. Here are some adjectives for poem: singularly original and beautiful, heroic-comical, neat and brief, incomparable, incomprehensible, heroical, critical, short elegiac, flawless and beautiful, dull, disgusting, stately metaphysical, great and stately metaphysical, brilliant and very perfect, worst didactic.