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1Free verse — is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent …
2free verse — free versifier /free verr seuh fuy euhr/, n. Prosody. verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. [1905 10] * * * Poetry organized according to the cadences of speech and image patterns rather than according to a regular metrical scheme …
3free verse — n [U] poetry that does not have a fixed structure and does not ↑rhyme →↑blank verse …
4free verse — free′ verse′ n. pro verse with no fixed metrical pattern • Etymology: 1905–10 …
5free verse — noun uncount a type of poetry that does not have a regular RHYTHM or RHYME …
6free verse — 1908; see VERS LIBRE (Cf. vers libre) …
7free verse — ► NOUN ▪ poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm …
8free verse — n. poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic forms …
9free verse — noun unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern • Syn: ↑vers libre • Hypernyms: ↑poem, ↑verse form * * * noun Etymology: translation of French vers libre : verse whose meter is irregular in some respect or who …
10FREE VERSE — Japanese poetry has historically been governed by metric considerations based upon the tanka tradition. Free verse does away with the strict metrical structure of tanka, lending itself to the use of colloquial grammar and vocabulary. When… …
