free versenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfriː ˈvɜːs/us/ˌfriː ˈvɝːs/poetry whose lines do not have a regular pattern
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Literature
- alliteration
- antihero
- arch-villain
- baddy
- ballad
- bard
- dramatist
- epigram
- heroine
- iambic
- ingénue
- limerick
- lit
- pantomime
- prose poem
- prosody
- psalm
- quatrain
- revue
- stylistics
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Examples from literature
- Amy writes poetry, free verse.
- At times he thought of taking to free verse, but the results of his efforts did not satisfy him.
- He is an experimenter in free verse forms as well as in impressions.
- The objection to most of the "free verse" that is being written to-day is that in form it is neither delightful nor memorable.
- Why, father, you think Ben is a radical, but he's the most hidebound conservative about some things—much worse than you—about free verse, for instance.