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
  • Of course Swift’s legion of devotees would scoff at the notion that their heroine was anything but a pop goddess, their very own Glinda the Good Witch sent to comfort with lyrical poetry and aid crumpled hearts.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Verbatim Reginald Dwayne Betts A 2012 essay from the American Poetry Review on poetry and the architecture of anger.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Finally Moncrieff chose Within a Budding Grove, from a poem by William Allingham.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This poem is from Courtney Kampa’s new book, A Bright and Borrowed Light.
    Courtney Kampa, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But music criticism aside, some fans feel betrayed by the album — and not just by the lyrics.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Social media star Kaeli Dance spoke the chorus lyrics to explain which moves correlate to each line in an Instagram Reel shared on Sunday.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 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
  • Nicolle closed out her routine with a rhyme that won her the one-on-one date that night.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But in the four years since then, he’s gone to jail, fallen out with his former partner-in-rhyme Gunna and made more headlines for being at the center of public messiness than for anything he’s done with his music.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Why does one hard working fan have to buy seven different versions of an album instead of just having all of the songs be on one complete album?
    Bryan West, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The 89-minute movie includes a music video, behind-the-scenes footage, lyric videos and Swift’s personal reflections on songs from the album, according to AMC’s website.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025

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