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vers libre

noun

Definition of vers librenext
as in blank verse

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  1. blank verse
  2. free verse
  3. versification
  4. poetry
Noun
  • 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
Definition of blank verse
Noun
  • There was no such thing as free verse until the late 19th century.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
  • The poem’s narrative frequently shifts between different speakers and languages, and Eliot employed a range of styles and techniques, including free verse and stream of consciousness.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
Definition of free verse
Noun
  • 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
  • But this is bad advice, as showy and even showoffy rhymes are one of the special glories of English versification.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Definition of versification
Noun
  • Most of the books were published between the nineteen-seventies and the twenty-tens, and the genres spanned history, biography, fiction, poetry, literary criticism, law, and the social sciences.
    — Francesca Mancino, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This reputation is tied to the biting wit and unruly imagination found across his prose, poetry and political writings.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of poetry
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