America owes nothing to French free verse which was usually rhymed and corresponds to the pindaric Ode founded by Cowley in the middle of the seventeenth century.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Haller was a good poet of the pindaric kind; he was also an excellent statesman, and had rendered great services to his country.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
He introduced the pindaric ode into English, and wrote an epic poem on a biblical subject-the Davideis-now quite unreadable.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers