Free verse (vers libre). In French poetry, there are two different cases
when it is called free verse. In the 17th century, free verse was defined
as a poem that was not limited to 12 identical syllables and had no or
no strophes. However, rhymes were present, and each stanza retained the
form of vers regulier in terms of the number of syllables. In contrast,
modern free verse ignores the rules related to the number of syllables
in traditional stanzas. Thus, what makes a stanza a stanza is solely the
inner rhythm of the poet and the fluidity of the image itself. From this
attempt at free verse, various attempts at poetic forms by poets after
Dadaism and Surrealism developed, and in that sense, it is important to
know the process of the creation and development of free verse in order
to understand modern poetry.