free verse
Example Sentences
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The history of art reads here as one long, free verse poem-in-progress, gorgeous and absorbing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
It spans 22 panels, down which Cendrars’s free verse runs in 30 different typefaces.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
During the session, participants were prompted to describe vivid paintings and photographs through spoken word; each of my peers shared intimate writing samples that took place in free verse, rap and song.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2022
Its 12 poems were written in free verse, meaning they didn’t rhyme.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ...
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
