[Sundae]

Free verse - when it's done well - can have a simplicity about it which renders it beautiful in its own right. Like a single tulip in a vase as opposed to a huge bouquet.

And sometimes it contains lines and images that stay with you for days.
Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings is free verse, in that it doesn't rhyme.

It starts:

That Whitsun, I was late getting away:
Not till about
One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday
Did my three-quarters-empty train pull out,

What? Where's the skill in that? My Mum might write that in an email - why is that poetry?

But a few lines later you have:

thence
The river's level drifting breadth began,
Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet.

With its wonderful dragging vowels to describe the breadth of the sluggish river.
And:

All afternoon, through the tall heat that slept
For miles island,
A slow and stopping curve southwards we kept.

Something I always think about on train journeys.

And my absolute favourite (which again I always think about when approaching London):

I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat

Sorry. Poetry fan.