Line Breakage

Poets writing in Free Verse, pretty much have the freedom to stop a line at any time and begin the next whenever. Some of the time, the lines are totally different in word count and length. Sometimes it makes the poems very difficult to understand and read in a "flowy", "poetic" way.

When I think of poems, I think of rhyming words at the end of each line. Little is that the case now in the free verse writing. I feel like poets tend to end lines with the end of each thought. For example, with Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro," even though it is only two lines long, the poem is a whole idea or single image.

The first line is sort of the start of the thought. The second line is then the completed description of the thought. There is nothing more to it than just that. The line ends with a comma, where I would assume there is a pause, a breath, a break in the reading. This, to me is more poetic and flows better than one like Gertrude Stein's stanzas. I feel like hers were almost made to look a certain way, instead of sound a certain way.