What is the most likely reason the author chose a free verse structure for "Song of Myself"?

Free verse has no fixed rhyme scheme or meter, so it gives Whitman room to vary the poem’s rhythm and let his thoughts unfold broadly. That flexibility suits the poem’s expansive ideas about the self, humanity, and the world. The best answer is “Free verse allowed for the expression of expansive ideas.”

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