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Definition of Free verse
1. Noun. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern.
Definition of Free verse
1. Noun. A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Verse
Literary usage of Free verse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"Free-verse is destitute of rhyme, and it has only an irregular and rudimental
rhythm. ... That poetry may take the form of free-verse may be granted, ..."
2. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"CHAPTER X free verse The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee ...
Writers of free verse have forced us to abandon meter, the traditional mark ..."
3. The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum (1922)
"FREE-VERSE Free-verse (or, as Miss Lowell prefers, ' unrhymed cadence') is a
hydra-headed phenomenon. It can never be adequately discussed; ..."
4. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"Almost invariably the free verse poem and self-conscious. All her books have
effect is very short and suggestive of a She is cosmopolitan, complicated, ..."
5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1922)
"free verse forms by a child of eight. Corbin, Alice. Red Earth. RF Seymour. ...
Pagan Pub. Co. Poems in free verse; including also three free verse plays. ..."
6. New Voices: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry by Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson (1922)
"But, when the novelty of it had worn off, we were bored rather than amused by
the shrieking, grimacing, headline quality of much that was called free verse. ..."
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