as in poetry
verse that does not rhyme and does not have a regular rhythm
The author's free verse has a unique rhythmic intensity.
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Recent Examples of free verse
Like family feuds, squabbles among poets are too tedious to recount, but Wiman remembers being accused of commissioning too much prose, of privileging formalism over free verse, and of publishing vicious reviews and vacuous poetry.
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Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
The book, first published in 1927, is organized according to the calendar, with a passage of free verse that evokes the qualities and pleasures of each month, a small monochrome drawing nearby, and, on the facing page, a full-color illustration of the sort to draw fascinated attention.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
His sentences come out as free verse, a sort of Rust Belt beat poetry.
—Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
Indeed, much of Dose’s best work has been free verse—rooted in hip-hop, but not stuck in it.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
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Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
The book, first published in 1927, is organized according to the calendar, with a passage of free verse that evokes the qualities and pleasures of each month, a small monochrome drawing nearby, and, on the facing page, a full-color illustration of the sort to draw fascinated attention.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
His sentences come out as free verse, a sort of Rust Belt beat poetry.
—Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
Indeed, much of Dose’s best work has been free verse—rooted in hip-hop, but not stuck in it.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free verse
Noun
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Wesley Viner, associate curator at the museum, told Fox News Digital the letter is part of an ongoing correspondence about the nature of poetry, knowledge and Christianity.—
Ashley J. DiMella Fox News,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Writers used to inherently understand the value of a good story and inject poetry and cosmic musing into their baseball writing… Sheesh, make baseball human again.—
Levi Weaver,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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After Vincent’s death, there were excruciating days, days of numbness, days of contentment and days of melancholy, days of reading and writing and days of not being able to read or write, days of holding on upside down (like the bat in Marianne Moore’s poem) and days of holding on right side up.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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Her journals and poems, collected in binders, served as the scaffolding.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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The song’s lyrics concern doubt and betrayal in relationships, Springsteen said in a press release.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2025
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Schwartz, who wrote both music and lyrics to all the songs in Wicked, is set to receive the 2025 Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala on Thursday, June 12, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
17 Apr. 2025
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Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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For starters, when asked to write a second line for a rhyming poem, the model first decided on the final word—the rhyme—and then went back and filled in the rest of the line.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Smith, long known for clean, polished rhymes, now sounds like a man confronting himself, his critics, and his choices — unapologetically.—
Delano Massey,
Axios,
28 Mar. 2025
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Hopefully, that will make genre transitions less jarring without changing how a song sounds.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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In addition, there’s a post-credits scene that features the young version of Sammie signing a song, which, like the mid-credits scene, doesn’t serve as a springboard for a sequel.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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