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free verse

noun

Etymology

A calque of French vers libre.

  1. derived from vers libre

Definitions

  1. A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.

    • Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for free verse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA