Written at the end of Poe's life, this incantatory poem examines bell sounds as symbols of four milestones of human experience—childhood, youth, maturity, and death. “The Bells” is composed of four stanzas of increasing length and is a showcase of onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, and assonance. He also uses these bells as a use of alliteration in the poem.
The experience will vary depending on the exact dramatization you read, but in general, a dramatization will be shorter and will eliminate many of the details in the interest of condensing the story for the sake of time.
