1) Exclusively Saxon word 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Imagists employ it 4) It has irregular meter 5) Poetry 6) Poetry with no set meter 7) Style of writing 8) Type of poetry 9) Type of verse 10) Unrhymed poesy 11) Unrhymed poetry 12) Word of purely Anglo origin 13) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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Free verse is an open form (see Poetry analysis) of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. ==Prefatory== Poets have explained that free verse is, despite its freedom, not entirely free. Free verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, ...
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poetry organized to the cadences of speech and image patterns rather than according to a regular metrical scheme. It is `free` only in a relative ... [2 related articles]
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Poetry without metrical form. At the beginning of the 20th century, many poets believed that the 19th century had accomplished most of what could be done with regular metre, and rejected it, in much...
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Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constrai
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Rhythmical but non-metrical, non-rhyming lines. These may have a deliberate rhythm or cadence but se
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Verse without a regular rhyme, metre or length of lines. The rhythm here follows natural speech rhythms. A gifted poet is nevertheless able to convey the importance of his writing through words and his particular rhythm alone.
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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 ...
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n] - unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
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Verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter. Also called open form poetry.
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poetry written in a casual or unpatterned rhythm similar to spoken language.
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poetry which is not constrained by patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
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vers libre noun unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
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Poetry without metrical form. At the beginning of the 20th century, many poets believed that the 19th century had accomplished most of what could be done with regular metre, and rejected it, in much the same spirit as John Milton in the 17th century had rejected rhyme, preferring irregular metres that made it possible to express thought clearly and...
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verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
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