Perhaps good prose and good storytelling do not always go hand in hand.
After all, women can't write good classical prose.
I'm going to read to you,' she said, 'to help you appreciate the sound of good prose.
Sometimes the lines read like arbitrarily broken prose, but pretty good prose.
Gone to the dogs like fine art and good prose.
Good storytelling and good prose are not the same thing.
The car gives us every excuse to wrap ourselves in good prose and drift far away.
One woman in the latter group criticizes the structure of the president's sentences, stating that he "does not speak good prose."
I suppose good prose could achieve the same effect but it would I think require a higher word count.
But above all, good verse, unlike good prose, is not necessarily and individual product.