What makes poetry, poetry?

in ordinary speech - including prose - meaning important, words used hardly matter @ all. in ordinary speech can 'say different way' , means same thing.

in poetry precise words matter:

shall compare thee summer's day?
thou art more lovely, , more temperate

cannot expressed in other words without altering meaning.

when speak magic spell, have words right - otherwise magic doesn't work (or other kind of magic).

poems type of magical language. have words right: long do, wonderful things start happen.

like classifications make defined poetry?

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