free verse

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Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The history of art reads here as one long, free verse poem-in-progress, gorgeous and absorbing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Tanikawa is among Japan’s most famous modern poets, and a master of free verse on the everyday.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 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