Poetry
The poet desides where the lines end, rhythm of words and their meaning habe a emotional impact, poems with shapes that intentionally imitate what the poem is about, poems have verses, removes the non-essential words, what causes the strongest emotions is not what the poem describes, but what it make the reader imagine.
Prose
Cant control where the lines end, paragraghs,less meaning full, explains and describes thing, it makes sense, Prose normally talks to the logical part of the reader's mind
Has words,
Comparing poetry and prose
(author: Kevin)