free verse
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It spans 22 panels, down which Cendrars’s free verse runs in 30 different typefaces.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
“Joe Pera Talks With You” was, though, a free verse Midwestern ode to tenderness and wonder.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022
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
Its 12 poems were written in free verse, meaning they didn’t rhyme.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
“Looks kind of like free verse, doesn’t it?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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