Difficulty: Medium
Average Score: 50%
Ethan: I find it really hard to appreciate free verse-or more generally, any so-called poetry that does not use rhyme. For me, rhyme is integral to poetry. Consider Wordsworth's Daffodils; would those lines have half the impact they do if they did not rhyme? Fred: You are probably aware that in the past century, more free-verse poetry has been written than rhyming poetry. What you say about Daffodils may be true, but poetic expression does not demand rhyme. Ethan: To me, free-verse "poems" do not sound very different from prose; they seem like paragraphs split into lines. Fred: You seem to have mentally defined poetry as "lines that rhyme."

Based on the exchange above, which of the following beliefs does Ethan most likely hold?

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