The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.