| 单词 | free verse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree verse free verse n. [after French vers libre (1549 in Middle French: see vers libre n.)] poetic writing in which the traditional rules of prosody, esp. those of metre and rhyme, are disregarded in favour of variable rhythms and line lengths; cf. vers libre n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > free verse free verse1813 semi-rhythm1893 vers libre1902 1813 A. Davis Amer. Version Psalms David Pref. 3 In executing this work, the plan was to give a free verse translation of the Psalms. 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 7 68 The third and last eclogue in free verse is September. 1890 Mod. Lang. Notes 5 58 The author examines the origin and development of free verse in modern French poetry. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. ix. 682 I hate Free Thought, Free Love and Free Verse. 1926 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 31 A cubist or a free-verse writer. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge v. 178 She'd got on to Carl Sandburg and was writing savagely in free verse about the misery of the poor. 2007 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 15 Apr. f8 They explain, in 20 to 40 lines of free verse, what happened on the occasion in question. < as lemmas |
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