free verse
Example Sentences
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Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
I’ve been in a fight with my husband about free verse versus poetic form.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Renshi is a kind of Japanese collaborative poetry that is more open-ended free verse than older forms like “renku.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
He wrote her postmodern poems — written in free verse, which she had never read before — and taught her how to write her own.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022
“Looks kind of like free verse, doesn’t it?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
