What is free verse?
A kind of poem. Not limited by metrical rules, poetry is relatively free in terms of stanzas, lines, words and phonology, but requires a distinct rhythm. Its rhythm is not reflected in a fixed syllable unit, but in the natural rhythm of spoken language with the ups and downs of feelings. Generally, it doesn't rhyme, and it doesn't bet similar rhymes. Whitman, an American poet, is the founder of modern liberal poetry and has a great influence on China's liberal poetry. Around the May 4th Movement, with the development of the New Literature Movement, free verse was widely popular in China.