vers libre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vers libre
Borrowed into English from French around 1915–20
Example Sentences
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The four protagonists in her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, are as hyperconscious of social norms as the vers libre poets were hyperconscious of meter.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017
The elder poet was presented with a small stone casket full of poems written by the younger men, poems that struck him as “word problems”: incomprehensibly Modern, most of them in vers libre.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 24, 2015
The symbolists were bent on challenging the poetic status quo, and vers libre was one of the great technical innovations to emerge.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011
It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without undue flattery to Master Trafford, we may conclusively state that we deem his poem a great deal better than most of the vers libre effusions which so many of his elders are perpetrating nowadays!
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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