vers libre

American  

[vair lee-bruh, ver lee-br^uh] / ˌvɛər ˈli brə, vɛr ˈli brə /

noun

1. free verse.

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vers libre British  

/ vɛr librə /

noun

1. (in French poetry) another term for free verse

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Etymology

Origin of vers libre

Borrowed into English from French around 1915–20

Example Sentences

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

From the French symbolist poet Paul Fort she learned a technique of writing "polyphonic prose" – prose which used the different voices of poetry, such as "metre, vers libre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme and return".

From The Guardian

In his treatment of vers libre our author is not too sympathetic.

From Project Gutenberg

For all I know, Zipp is a poet—his smile is lyrical, and in his roving eyes there is a suggestion of vers libre.

From Project Gutenberg

But the founders of the vers libre, I am told, had never heard of this book.

From Project Gutenberg