Using different scholars, define the term prose?

1. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, prose is defined as "written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure."

2. Literary critic Northrop Frye describes prose as "the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse."

3. Linguist and literary theorist Roman Jakobson defines prose as "the language of everyday communication, characterized by its lack of formal structure or rhyme."

4. Literary scholar Terry Eagleton describes prose as "the most common form of written language, used in novels, essays, and other non-poetic works."

According to the Oxford English Dictionary:

"Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure."

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

"Ordinary written or spoken language distinguished from verse."

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica:

"Literary writing that is distinguished by its use of ordinary language as opposed to the formal or metrical language of poetry."

According to Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC):

"Discourse not set to rhythm."

According to Walter Pater (1877):

"Literature which has no obstacles in technique to oppose to the reader."

According to Ezra Pound (1908):

"Prose is that which is written in the common speech, using its natural rhythm."

According to T.S. Eliot (1922):

"Poetry and prose are not separated by a principle, but by a difference in the duration of the unit of rhythm."