How is Free Verse different from Prose

[billy]

i just read the thread, (will get back to leave some feedback on the poem after some breakfast)

one question was why do we say "it needs grammar" when it's a free verse poem.
my reaon is this, syntax. if you write a line that has no comma mid sentence, and the read is jerky.
if adding grammar improves the piece. generally if it's a form i leave feedback as to where it shifted off a form.
this isn't so easy with free verse. in general if a poem works without gramma i don't say anything. again, it comes down to leanne's poetic sentence,

Really? - don't we need grammar so that it is actually english? not confusing? IT's our language we can do what we like, how rigidly we conform to any meter or rule grammar dictates or selecting to use only words which are currently in popular use, depends on the overall effect we would like to create, I think.

It is a poem, and it is your poem, do as you will, but don't be sad if people don't like it, whatever techniques have been adopted. There will always be nay sayers and no way to please everyone, I mean someone sits down, writes, and presumably get's paid for those things in hallmark cards, imagine performing them at a literary fest - oooh cringey, but horses for courses innit.

i'm not sure i said it right, in a phrase, if it needs grammar it needs grammar, if it doesn't, it doesn't.

not all poems need grammar, many work by using enjambment, line ends and double line spacing to create the pauses.