It appears chiefly in poetic and later Biblical passages.

The stories were written in prose, but peppered with poetic passages.

And he does, in an impassioned poetic passage.

There are long poetic passages devoted to motivation and introspection on life's injustices that a more mature playwright would have cut in half.

Peter had spent hours copying long, poetic passages from these books and had tried his hand at illustrating scenes from them.

Lalah was reading aloud from a particularly poetic passage.

It was from him that the author was inspired to write poetic passages about the wonders of nature.

There are poetic passages that speak eloquently to me with meanings that transcend the literal words.

In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.

Not long ago he would have scoffed at such teaching, at such a literal take on so clearly a poetic and metaphoric passage.