Free verse is an easier form of poetry because it is unconstrained by things like scansion, meter, or rhyming schemes.
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It takes no account of the quantity of syllables; the scansion depends on accent, and there is always an accent on the last syllable but one.
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Rhyme is nice in a riddle-poem, but strong rhythm (what poets call good scansion) is better.
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