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free verse

[free vurs] / ˈfri ˈvɜrs /
NOUN
unrhymed verse
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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

Two six-minute compositions in the middle of “Ocean Blvd,” though, test the limits of Del Rey’s penchant for free verse.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

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

When raw veggies were served I have often observed That the crudites flew in free verse.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 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