free verse
Example Sentences
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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
Tanikawa is among Japan’s most famous modern poets, and a master of free verse on the everyday.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022
Its 12 poems were written in free verse, meaning they didn’t rhyme.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
As for that free verse: Here Woods finds success.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 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
