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Okay, then to be more specific: I also do not have a readily-accessible full list of qualities that look like poetry to me. However, what you have written does not pattern-match as poetry. It seems to me as though it imitates some superficial aspects of poetry, but is missing the essential point that poetry requires that equal attention be paid to the form as to the content (this is not a sufficient condition, but I think it is necessary). It is not poetry, but prose with line breaks.
Of course, it could be that something you are doing is going over my head. So in order to give you the benefit of the doubt, I am asking: what about the form have you given sufficient attention to qualify it as poetry?
Also, if you believe there are ways to improve the quality of the form, without sacrificing the essence of the original, I'm very much open to suggestions (or hell, a complete reworking of it).
I think it is likely that, somewhere in spoken-word-space, there exists a poem that accomplishes everything the original prose did, while having a more beautiful form. I think that poem would have to have changes so extensive that it would effectively be a different work. I could be wrong about that. But it seemed likely, and my goal was to preserve the original, so I went in a different direction.