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.