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

But I tried writing this free verse thing, and I really liked it and wanted to write more things like that.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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

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