A paraphrase is a restatement, in your own words, of a passage of text. Its structure reflects the structure of the source passage.
Paraphrases are sometimes the same length as the source passage, sometimes shorter.
Stuart Mill, On Liberty . The majority is as wrong in silencing the individual as the individual, if he were able, would be wrong in silencing the majority. The Negro's great stumbling block is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice, . . . who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom. Luther King, Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. And it seems to be you lived your life Like a candle in the wind, Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in.