What gives a document the name of a poem?

Question:the rhyme, rhythm, imagery, etc?

i never really understood this.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: the rhyme, rhythm, imagery, etc?

i never really understood this.

I think its the poet creativity not the rythm, imagery, and similes that so much make the poem but it is how the poet put it together that brings out the greatest exspression in th
e poem that what make it unique.

pauses, depth of emotion and expression ,metaphor and simile and other ways of comparison and imagination, parts of speech , composition (basically)

rhythm usually matters only in some kind of poetry

It seems to me that in English, at least, the difference is that poetry is written by the line. Prose is written by the sentence. Who decides where the end if a line of prose will occur? The editor or compositor. Who decides where the end of a line of poetry will occur? The poet. This, of course, has something to do with the fact that a line of poetry is a unit of rhythm or meter.

Most works of poetry can be recognized as poems from a distance that is too big for you to actually read any of the words.