Free Verse Definition

noun
Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.
American Heritage
Poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic forms.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Free Verse

  • Translation of French vers libre vers verse libre free

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • A calque of French vers libre.

    From Wiktionary

Free Verse Sentence Examples

  • All bets are off when it comes to free verse poetry.

  • A free verse poem is whatever the poet wants it to be.

  • A rhymed poem concluding in free verse can make its point as forcefully as a closing couplet.

  • Instead, free verse poetry may rhyme or may not rhyme (or may mix rhyming and not rhyming lines), it may be very long or very short, and it doesn't count syllables.

  • Mostly we're looking at work written according to a kind of mid-20th century free-verse orthodoxy.

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Words Starting With

FFRFRE

Words Ending With

ESERSE

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Words Starting With F and Ending With E

Starts With F & Ends With EStarts With FR & Ends With EStarts With F & Ends With SE

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With F10 Letter Words Ending With E