(LTC) Poetry written in irregular lines and without any regular metre. (OALD) poetry without a regular rhythm or rhyme.
Free verse is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter. Free verse seeks to capture the rhythms of speech.
Poetry that does not adhere to conventional metrical patterns and has either irregular rhyme or no rhyme at all. Walt Whitman pioneered the use of free verse in American poetry, and his "Song of Myself" is a classic example.
Poetry that does not depend on traditional form and meter. Some of the features of free verse include enjambment, visual patterning, and varying line lengths. With the exception of Frost, McKay, and Cullen, most poets in this unit wrote in free verse.
or in French, "vers libre", is verse written without a regular metric pattern and usually without rhyme. Leonard Cohen's following poem is in free verse. SUMMER HAIKU Silence and a deeper silence when the crickets hesitate 1
unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Poetry without standardized rhyme, meter, or structure. It is not formless, however, but relies on its own words and content to determine its best form.
Poetry without a fixed metrical pattern.
poetry that does not use traditional meter or rhyme.
Poetry that has no definite meter. However, a natural speech rhythm is followed. Rhyme is rarely present in free verse.
is poetry that is based on rhythm patterns other than meter; although it contains no formal meter, it may rhyme.
Poetry that has no fixed meter or pattern and that depends on natural speech rhythms. Free verse may rhyme or not rhyme; its lines may be of different lengths; and like natural speech, it may switch suddenly from one rhythm to another.
Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter.
While Free Verse does not rely on the conventional use of meter or rhyme, at the core its words flow in an irregular rhythmic cadence. Subject matter, effect, and tone vary greatly across the style. The French poets of the late nineteenth century revolted against the tyranny of strict versification and established the Verse libre movement.
Refers to poetry that does not follow a prescribed form but is characterized by the irregularity in the length of lines and the lack of a regular metrical pattern and rhyme. Free verse may use other repetitive patterns instead (like words, phrases, structures). Note: Free verse should not be confused with BLANK VERSE.
poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet. It often involved the counterpoint of stressed and unstressed syllables in unpredictable but clever ways. Its origins are obscure.
verse with an irregular metrical pattern and line length that originated in 19th-century France as a movement to free poetry from the strict metrical rules of that time; vers libre.
poetry not structured according to a set metrical pattern and usually irregular in line length.
a poem in which the author focuses more on line breaks than the rules of poetry
Verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns. Free verse, instead, relies upon the natural rhythms of everyday speech. The American poet Walt Whitman was a pioneer of free verse (see Song of Myself). However, it was fellow Americans T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound who are generally regarded as the major instigators of free verse in English. Free verse is particularly associated with both the imagist and modernist movements. See also vers libre.
poetry without any fixed pattern of meter, rhythm, or rhyme, but which instead exhibits its own natural rhythms, sound patterns, and seemingly arbitrary principles of form. Example: most of the poems in Leaves of Grass.
(Also known as Vers libre.) Poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns but that tries to capture the Cadence s of everyday speech. The form allows a poet to exploit a variety of rhythmical effects within a single poem. Free-verse techniques have been widely used in the twentieth century by such writers as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams.
Free verse (also at times referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as 'poetry' by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole.Burns Cooper, op. cit.