3.1 this is used to mark the end of a sentence when it is a statement (and not a question or exclamation). in prose, sentences marked by full stops normally represent a discrete or distinct statement;
Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is inprose.
这剧本大部分是用韵文写的，不过有一些是用散文。
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His adventurous song is one that "with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian Mount, while it pursues things unattempted yet inProse or Rhyme."