I'm curious what people suggest here. I have two books I read long ago I remember liking that address this (two books which I should re-read).
Charles O. Hartman's Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody
Robert B. Shaw's Blank Verse
The first obviously looked at line breaks from a non-metrical side, and that's valuable for not just writing free verse but enlivening metrical verse.
The second really shows the brilliance of poets like Milton and some later poets. Really did enhance my deep love for Paradise Lost.
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