| 单词 | free verse |
| 释义 | free verse (once / 44941 pages) n If you’ve ever studied classical poetry then you know how much poets used to obsess over syllable count and the stresses or beats in a line of verse, or poetry. Free verse is poetry that does away with the old rules. There are many different forms of poetry with strict rules about rhythm, or meter. Free verse poetry began in the 19th century as a rejection of the rules in favor of other ways of organizing a poem. Much contemporary poetry is free verse. If you look at something like Shakespeare’s sonnets, on the other hand, you can see that it has strict rules: 14 lines with a couplet at the end, and no arguments! WORD FAMILYfree verse: free verses USAGE EXAMPLESSometimes Wiman composes in rhyme and meter, sometimes free verse. Slate(Dec 06, 2016) The musings are written in haiku, free verse, limerick and rhyme. Los Angeles Times(Nov 18, 2016) It fused folk forms including spirituals and work songs and modernist techniques such as free verse, imagism and stream-of-consciousness. Time(Nov 09, 2016) n unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern Syn|Hyper vers libre poem, verse form a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines |
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