Choose a stanza from any poem, including those in this lesson. Write a paraphrase of those lines. Then compare the original stanza with the paraphrase. What has changed in the transition from poetry to prose?

I don't know what the poems in the chapters are, but several things tend to change when you move between poetry and prose.

One is the loss of figurative language. When you summarize a poem into prose, the language tends to be more literal as you are explaining meaning instead of creating it.

Another is length. Very short poems in prose tend to be a bit longer, and very long poems, when summarized in prose tend to be shorter.

Another change is rhythm ... poems that have rhythm or rhyme patterns lose that element in a summary of prose.

These are all examples of things you might find that change when you're summarizing a poem.