Excuse me: How to distinguish free verse, blank verse and prose verse?

Free verse is the main style of China's new poetry. The concept of free verse is often used in the research and criticism of China's new poetry, but it has not been reviewed in history and theory. Based on the reflection of China's early theory of free poetry and the process of accepting free poetry in new poetry, this paper holds that in the process of "seeking liberation" in language and form, the consideration of spirit and content obviously takes precedence over aesthetic consideration, and there is a phenomenon of romanticizing and simplifying free poetry. Free verse is reasonable in existence, but it should still follow the basic law of poetry's use of language, and should not be regarded as the supreme form of new poetry, so as to replace other forms of exploration. It is necessary to break the absolute concept that "new poetry should be free poetry" and form a poetic ecology of coexistence, dialogue and interaction between metrical poetry and free poetry, so as to form a competitive mechanism and reference system within poetry and gain the ability of self-reflection and self-adjustment. Blank verse: A large number of poems and hymns written in poetic style in Buddhist scriptures have been translated into blank poems of five or seven words. This simplified translation method of abandoning rhyme because of helplessness has created a new poetic style in Chinese. Since then, odd-numbered rhythms such as five or seven words, which are more lively than four or six words, have become popular in China, and have become the main poetic rhythm of Chinese habits (and the law of flat tones based on four tones was developed only after the Indian anti-tangent pinyin method was imported). Later, Buddhists in China, such as Zen monks, often used this form to express their feelings of enlightenment, but sometimes they rhymed by the way out of habit. Much like China's five-character blank verse, it is blank verse in English. It has five steps per line, and each step is light before heavy, without rhyme, and the number of lines is unlimited. Prose poetry is a special lyrical style in China literature in the 2th century. Its stylistic characteristics have long been misunderstood by new poets. Prose poetry has almost become a popular style in the early stage of new poetry, and it has been paid great attention by new poets in China. Prose poetry has given new poets too much stylistic freedom, which not only caused them to pursue "prose beauty" excessively, but also contributed to the extreme confrontation between stylistic freedom and stylistic rules that have existed for a long time in the history of the construction of new poetry. It is impossible for the century-old new poetry to establish a relatively stereotyped style.