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Like thousands of his subjects, he will compose a rhymeless, accentless, 31-syllable tanka entitled Clouds Over Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

But on the whole he is pleasant, his rhymeless phrases are more precisely tooled than Christmas tree ornaments, and the total effect is that of a very small and shaded candle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kneedrock's tirade, reasonless, rhymeless, with its seemingly endless iteration and reiteration of ideas, phrases, words; all combining to form one great outpouring volume of contemptuous, reproachful, mad rebuke, had stunned her—deafened her.

From The Tigress by Warner, Anne

We have comedies of Ariosto and Macchiavelli— those of the former are in rhymeless verse, versi sdruccioli, and those of the latter in prose.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

The verse in all his plays is generally the rhymeless Iambic of ten or eleven syllables, occasionally only intermixed with rhymes, but more frequently alternating with prose.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John