Does this qualify as poetry, or is it prose?

Question

The following is a segment of an ancient song. It is viewed as the most beautiful example of early Hebrew poetry. Translation however, has removed whatever rhyme or meter existed in the original. I feel that the poetic classification of this work is still valid in English, though it does not meet literary standards for poetry, according to some.

What do you think ?

How beautiful are your steps in your sandals

O willing daughter

The curvings of you thighs are ornaments

Of skilled workmen

Your navel is a goblet that wants not liquor

Your two b*****s are two gazelles that are twins

Your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon

The tresses of your head hold the king in bondage

How fair and pleasant you are, beloved girl

I will go to the palm tree and hold the boughs thereof

Your b*****s will become as clusters of the vine

And the fragrance of your nose as apples

The roof of your mouth as the best wine

That goes down sweetly

Softly flowing over the lips of sleeping ones

Answer 1

Song of Solomon?  

Darling, your hair is like a flock of goats moving down Mount Gilead.  Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate...

Now that's romantic.

Well, if the responses to my previous question, "What seperates prose from poetry?" are any indication, then anything which is intended to be poetry, despite quality, is poetry.  So of course, that would make this poetry.

I am sure that it is a much more moving poem when read in its original Hebrew.