free verse

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Recent Examples of free verse Like family feuds, squabbles among poets are too tedious to recount, but Wiman remembers being accused of commissioning too much prose, of privileging formalism over free verse, and of publishing vicious reviews and vacuous poetry. Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023 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 His sentences come out as free verse, a sort of Rust Belt beat poetry. Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023 Indeed, much of Dose’s best work has been free verse—rooted in hip-hop, but not stuck in it. Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for free verse
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Noun
  • Many write poetry, go on dates, don’t need help to use a toilet.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In high school, my writing expanded to poetry, screenwriting and creative nonfiction.
    Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The title, from a poem by the Tohono O’odham linguist Ofelia Zepeda, clings like juniper on skin.
    Petala Ironcloud, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Listen a little more closely, however, and the lyrics often veer toward tales of dystopia and doomed love and mortality.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Wallen has not publicly responded to the lyrics as of Monday.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 28 Apr. 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
  • Years ago, rap beef was about who had the best rhymes.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The new book penned by Penn, 50, and Kim, 49, is aimed at young readers and celebrates people diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the wonders of their brains in playful rhyme and humor.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Their roster features major players from both genres scenes, including Knocked Loose, State Champs, Less Than Jake, Senses Fail, and The Story So Far, who are named after a classic New Found Glory song.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The song incorporates music, spoken word, clips of a Vietnamese woman crying out for her son, and the sound of air raid sirens.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025

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