I am well aware. I teach poetry. Even Free Verse, properly understood, should be a poetry form in which you set your own meter, structure and rhythm. It is often taught extremely poorly, leading to what you’re talking about, but at root it is supposed to be a poetic model where you get to determine the constraints, in contrast to say a sonnet, which has its own rules. So ‘whatever you want’ but not in the way most mean.
I am well aware. I teach poetry. Even Free Verse, properly understood, should be a poetry form in which you set your own meter, structure and rhythm. It is often taught extremely poorly, leading to what you’re talking about, but at root it is supposed to be a poetic model where you get to determine the constraints, in contrast to say a sonnet, which has its own rules. So ‘whatever you want’ but not in the way most mean.