I believe there is a time
and a space and a place
for free verse,

It is a style of expression
not better, or worse,
than iambic pentameter.

Frost was wrong.
Free verse is a song.

I love you Robert,
but vertical-flip
your frown.

Free verse is not
like playing tennis
with the net down.

– Roy H. Williams,
Oct 10, 2024,
4:19AM.

“For my part I should be as satisfied to play tennis with the net down as to write verse with no verse form set to stay me.”
– Robert Frost, in a 1934 letter to his daughter Lesley Frost.

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
– Robert Frost, May 17, 1935, to the students of Milton Academy, Massachusetts