How do transitions in understanding the organization of a text?

Transitions help you to keep moving forward in the story and moving from one thing to the next without confusion.

It’ll help the people who are reading know what comes first and what comes last.

The first stanza contains an epic simile. "As wasps, provoked by children in their play" establishes the comparison to a hive of wasps provoked to attack by thoughtless children playing near (or directly messing with) the hive. Note that this is a simile because it makes a direct comparison (it uses "like" or "as" to directly compare two ideas)