free verse

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Recent Examples of free verse Rhyming poems, like Reed’s, have fallen out of style this century in favor of free verse. Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024 The book, first published in 1927, is organized according to the calendar, with a passage of free verse that evokes the qualities and pleasures of each month, a small monochrome drawing nearby, and, on the facing page, a full-color illustration of the sort to draw fascinated attention. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023 Taking its title from a Toni Morrison quote, Water Made Us employs free verse, voice memos from family and friends, and sterling arrangements crafted with L.A. producer McClenney to examine her past relationships. Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2023 His sentences come out as free verse, a sort of Rust Belt beat poetry. Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for free verse
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Noun
  • In the time of the Timurids, a period that ended about 500 years ago,descendants of Tamerlane, the city hosted festivals of art, music, poetry and food that could last months.
    Dada Jovanovic, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of his life, Maesfield was putting together a collection of his poetry.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This extraordinary collection of two volumes of poems and a third of prose shows the empathy, intuition, and exquisite use of the natural world that make Oliver the heiress of Emerson and Thoreau.
    AudioFile Magazine September 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Do not carve your poem into a coconut, even though that would be pretty cool.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lessons will include crafting song lyrics, gaining confidence in artistic expression and pairing songwriters with students in a mentorship program.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The band has garnered widespread recognition for their poignant storytelling and socially conscious lyrics.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • At risk of being cast aside, Springsteen shed the rhyme-drunk ballads of his earlier work.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Bad things happen and there's no rhyme, there's no reason.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The previous week, Emily was at a sleepover at Heather’s house with Gretchen, when Gretchen, loosened up by shots of Fireball whiskey, revealed that Tamra once recorded a song, badly, according to Gretchen, with an unnamed boy band star that Gretchen claims Tamra got frisky with.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
  • One video for the song Turista, for instance, focused on Lares, the site of the 1868 Grito de Lares revolt against Spanish rule.
    Cat Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025

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