Synonyms of free verse

free verse

noun

as in poetry

verse that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm

The author's free verse has a unique rhythmic intensity.

Related Words

• poetry
• poem
• lyric
• blank verse
• rhyme
• song
• vers libre
• poesy
• versification
• minstrelsy
• sonnet
• ballad
• rune
• madrigal
• lay
• psalm
• pastoral
• English sonnet
• epic
• elegy
• epigram
• ode
• dithyramb
• limerick
• idyll
• pastorale
• jingle
• eclogue
• lament
• epopee
• villanelle
• epos
• anacreontic
• haiku
• epode
• triolet
• rondeau
• tanka
• rondel
• rondelet
• georgic
• clerihew
• senryu

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of free verse

The history of art reads here as one long, free verse poem-in-progress, gorgeous and absorbing. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026

Told in a first-person, free verse style, her struggle to overcome a family tragedy, an ecological catastrophe, and the Great Depression is harrowing yet hopeful. — Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026

Though most of Milosz’s poetry was written in free verse, no effort has been made to force the English versions into the complicated poetic forms the poet sometimes preferred — that would have required a different sense of obligation. — William Logan, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

The award-winning work, told through a mix of free verse and haiku, offers a poignant and nuanced look at a young person growing up Black in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, finding herself through the art of writing. — The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024