Does prosaic language have an analogue in music?
Put it another way:
Given that poetry has often been described in terms of "words-as-music": is there a compositional sonic equivalent of prose?
Put it yet another way.
Which of the following incomplete analogies is more likely to produce a useful solution:
Poetry : <some music> :: Prose : <other music>
Poetry : Music (all) :: Prose : <something else entirely>