free verse
noun
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
free verses
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pluralof free verse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I wonder what he would have thought of his kinswoman Amy's free verses if he had lived to read them.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Other men indulged in gallantry, other men wrote free verses.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Another of the first poets to write free verses, the Walloon poet, Albert Mockel, was not unacquainted with Whitman; he had read American Poems selected by William M. Rossetti.
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro
