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

I’ve been in a fight with my husband about free verse versus poetic form.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

It spans 22 panels, down which Cendrars’s free verse runs in 30 different typefaces.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

When raw veggies were served I have often observed That the crudites flew in free verse.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 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