Part of the problem we've had in discussing whether or not to
call "PF" a poem is revealed by the critical sentence in Frost's
"The Figure a Poem Makes":

Part of the problem in this discussion is that there is no single good word to describe a composition which is verse rather than poetry. All such compositions, which either rhyme or scan or are cut up into discrete lines, have to be called "poems". Pope's Dunciad has to be called a "poem", even though, to my contrariwise English-educated mind, and those minds of a similar persuasion, it is verse, not poetry.

 

Impenetrability. Call for Humpty-Dumpty.

 

Charles