free verse
Example Sentences
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Mr. Power’s previous books have mostly been about 18th-century writers, yet he is as much at home with recent free verse as with rhymed couplets and sonnets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I’ve been in a fight with my husband about free verse versus poetic form.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Short chapters presented in free verse make this an easy book to read, though it’s the most sober of the three under review, thanks to the more realistic career of its protagonist.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
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
