vers libre
Example Sentences
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The four protagonists in her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, are as hyperconscious of social norms as the vers libre poets were hyperconscious of meter.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2017
The elder poet was presented with a small stone casket full of poems written by the younger men, poems that struck him as “word problems”: incomprehensibly Modern, most of them in vers libre.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2015
The symbolists were bent on challenging the poetic status quo, and vers libre was one of the great technical innovations to emerge.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unit in vers libre is not the foot, the number of the syllables, the quantity, or the line.
From Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology by Aldington, Richard
