as in blank verse
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Noun
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The piece has the pattern of blank verse.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025 -
But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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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
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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,
The New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Slathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
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Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
12 Aug. 2022
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MaKshya Tolbert practices poetry and placemaking in Virginia, where her grandmother raised her.—
MaKshya Tolbert,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Paniagua Guzman and other researchers have reviewed literature showing that poetry interventions open a path to self-expression for those living with dementia and their caregivers, giving them agency as well as opportunities to connect with others.—
Holly J. McDede,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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