ABSTRACT
Robert Frost famously compared ‘free verse’ to playing tennis without a net.T.S. Eliot suggested, on the other hand, that no verse is free for the writer who wants to do a good job.
Children who have worked in the ways suggested in the chapter on poems without rhymes will already have begun, in a rudimentary way, to side with Eliot. Having to make lines without rhymes means exercising your judgement about how words sound, how their rhythms feel.
