1. Rhythm: Poetry has certain rhythms and rhythms, and it usually needs to follow certain metrical patterns or melodies, such as rhyming, antithesis and leveling. Prose does not pursue rhyme and sentence order, and the language can be arbitrary.
2. Length: Poetry is generally short and pithy, expressing profound artistic conception and emotion in a few words, and prose is relatively long, which can describe things in detail or tell stories.
3. Sentence pattern: The sentence pattern of poetry is different from that of everyday language, and the language is often given a sense of aesthetic alienation and rhythm by means of abnormality, jumping and metaphor. The sentence relationship of prose is closer to daily language, and similes, conjunctions and logics are commonly used.