Some of those texts are verbal art, also called ‘literature’: they are literary texts.
Literary texts have linguistics form because they are texts (the product of verbal behavior), and they also have literary form.
Consider for example the following fragment of a literary text by Shakespeare.
It has both linguistics form and literary form, and certain aspects of the literary form are adaptations of the linguistics form.
So long as men can breathe and eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Among this text’s elements of linguistics form are the words which it uses, and the ways in which those words are combined into the complex linguistics structures called ‘sentences’.
This elements of linguistic form are not specific to literature.
In contrast, it also has specifically literary form, which includes the organization of the words into constituents called ‘lines ‘ and the matching of sounds to create a rhyme between the final parts of each line.
Both of these elements of literary form are adaptations of elements of the linguistics form of the text.
Thus the division of the text into lines depends on the organization of the text into distinct words, which is an aspect of linguistics form: the literary line-division coincides with the linguistics word-division.
And the possibility of rhyme depends on the linguistics formal organization of sounds into syllables: rhyme always involves a specified sub-part of a syllable and must therefore be defined in terms of aspects of linguistics form.
The division of a text onto lines and the creation of rhyme are both characteristics of literary texts, and are not found in all kinds of verbal text: this is why we classify them as specifically literary form and not linguistics form more generally.
However, though these are specifically literary form they depend on linguistics form for their existence: they are adaptations of linguistics form to literary form.
Linguistics Form and Literary Form
