No, it is a poem. Prose is anything that is not poetry.
No, "Twas the Night Before Christmas" is not an epic poem. It is a narrative poem, specifically a visit from St. Nicholas, commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas." Epic poems are lengthy, heroic narratives that often include supernatural elements and grand themes.
In the poem The Night Before Christmas, he lands on the roof, with his reindeer.
Twas The Night Before Christmas by Scott West
Stanta is not real
"The Night Before Christmas" or "A Visit from St. Nicholas."
A reindeer is mentioned in the poem 'The Night Before Christmas' by Clement C. Moore.
Twas the night before Christmas
ashes and soot
"Visions of sugarplums" danced in the heads of the children in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.
The reindeer that is left out of "The Night Before Christmas" is Rudolph. Rudolph was not introduced until the 1939 poem "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Robert L. May.
Saint Nicholas or Saint Nick
Twas the Night Before Christmas was written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822. The poem is also called "A Visit From St. Nicholas".
The story 'Twas the night before Christmas' definitely has its own style in that it is a poem and has a set meter and structure.