How can you determine if a poem is a free verse or traditional?

within free verse ,contemporary poets tend to use language that is easily accessible to general readers ,whereas traditional poem often feature language reserved for a more educated audiences.

1 the structures and characteristics of some traditional poem like haikus

2 free verse poem will have no set meter ,which is the rhythm of the words, or any particular structure

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

noun : part of speech

verb : variation