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I would have to find the website that I learned from but the rule I've always been taught is Free Verse poetry exists of poetic lines with no rhyme or meter that break at dramatic points - it can be in the middle of a sentence or at the end but they are at points of pause (or as you said, surprise line breaks). Prose writing (whether poetic or regular dramatic fiction, etc.) are written in a typical paragraph form with normal punctuation. They don't adhere to the system of one line, break, skip to the next line. They are written in a more normal grammatical sense like you'd read any story. Prose is a pretty general term. I've seen it written: "Splitting the lines of a prose work turns it into a free verse" which does rather sum up what I said above. Is that what you meant? Because generally speaking, Lines of prose with odd line breaks (to me) are 'free verse" as long as they don't rhyme or have any fixed meter. Hope that helps. Perhaps this might help also. At the very least, you might find it interesting. :) http://lewisturco.typepad.com/odd_and_invented_forms/2010/02/prose-and-poetry-vs...     Visit the Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative. Join me in saving lives.
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