I think I wrote free-verse on Steemit before Blockurator joined ;-)
And as noted in some citations on Wikipedia, free-verse has a lot of rules. At least the good kind.
Rhymes are easy to do bad. Hard to do well. I think giving up on rhyme and some of the metered verses is needed to grow your basic skills, and then you can go back to meter and rhyme and apply them properly.
RE: "In Toga-Armor Clad" (poem) ... My Daughter's Scholarship Entry