free verse
Example Sentences
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Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
But I tried writing this free verse thing, and I really liked it and wanted to write more things like that.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Renshi is a kind of Japanese collaborative poetry that is more open-ended free verse than older forms like “renku.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2022
He wrote her postmodern poems — written in free verse, which she had never read before — and taught her how to write her own.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022
Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ...
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
