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What are the two types of prose poetry?

There are two distinct types of prose poetry:

1. The first type is essentially "prose without line-breaks" and is closely associated with the development of the short story. Some examples of this include "Nadja" by André Breton, "The Song of the Dog" by Jack Kerouac, "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down" by William Faulkner and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

2. The second type, which developed more in the 19th century, employs deliberate devices of repetition, cadence and imagery, and is more like what most literary critics understand by "verse" written as unrhymed lines: examples of this kind include "La Prose du Transsibérien" by Blaise Cendrars and "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot.

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