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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free verse
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Hideko Takamine stars as Fumiko, a poor young woman who does manual labor and works as a bar hostess while writing poetry and prose that confront her struggle to survive alongside the feckless and brutal men in her life.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
16 May 2025
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Ancient Chinese poetry is often nonfiction, including first-person accounts of everyday life and observations of nature, the authors explained.—
Marlowe Starling,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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That’s right, your last poem talks about replanting trees to help restore Tuolumne Camp.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
8 May 2025
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Their juxtaposition has become a kind of composition: The poem has become a kind of prose.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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On the new version of the track, Laferte opens the song in Spanish, before St. Vincent joins in English as the two take turns tackling the song’s lyrics and their own language.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
23 May 2025
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Other fans even modified Taylor Swift lyrics to fit the situation, showing off their creativity.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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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
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The Chinese writing system is almost entirely based on bad rhymes like this; Vietnamese scholars would stretch these rhymes further when adapting the Chinese system for their own use.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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Or, there is no rhyme, reason or thought put into Trump’s word choices.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2025
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However, Friday’s rendition marked the first time Bieber and SZA had performed the song together onstage.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
24 May 2025
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Like Spotify, Apple Music's Home tab gives you quick access to new and familiar songs.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 May 2025
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“Free verse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/free%20verse. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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