How is a stanza of a poem different from a paragraph of a story?

A poem is made of lines/stanzas that make up together poetry while a paragraph of a story is NOT poetry but instead it usually is informal, persuasive, or entertainment.

With stanzas sometimes you have to put work into it by rhyming or by making the other sentence in the stanza connect with those paragraphs it doesn’t matter you just have to write a paragraph about what the essay is talking about

The author's purpose is to be persuasive