Writing a good free verse poem begins with a simple issue. What you write has to be a poem. That isn’t as obvious or as facetious as it sounds. Free verse relies on more subtle poetic factors than work written in set forms. Instead of metre providing a steady beat, there is rhythm and flow. Instead of rhyme presenting its chiming sounds, there are all the aspects of slant rhyme, assonance to harmonise the vowel sounds, alliteration and consonance to do the same for the consonants, and a range of other delicate similarities to hold the poem together.