But metre itself implies a passion, i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life.

Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.