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Meanings of free verse in English

Portuguese
verso livre
Catalan
vers lliure

Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern.

verso livre
Russian
верлибрист
Portuguese
versos livres
Spanish
verso libre
Catalan
vers lliure

Poetic style.

Related terms
верлибрист
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Examples for "vers libre"
Examples for "vers libre"
1
And I have written the Epic of the Snore in vers libre.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
2
He writes his best vers libre things in a purple dressing-gown.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
3
Fothergil Finch, Hermione's friend, the vers libre poet, dodges through life harried and hunted by one pursuing Fear.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
4
Individuality of rhythm; vers libre.
A Study of Poetry
5
With vers libre one experiences the mortification one sometimes feels in having roared out one's agony in perfectly fit terms.
The Principles of English Versification
Usage of free verse in English
1
I found a new form for it-it'sall in free verse.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
2
Apparently its revolutionary mix of free verse and democratic idealism helped define a nation.
The Irish Times
3
All college girls write notes in diaries, and sometimes they take to free verse.
Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone
4
And the clodheads who write disconnected, meaningless prose and claim that it's free verse.
By Proxy
5
Announced his firm intention of giving up free verse.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920
6
Both use free verse and like to skew the point of view in quick, surprising poems.
The Irish Times
7
In bouncing around the net it apparently got modified into the ' free verse' form now popular.
The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
8
With no such tone pattern in free verse, how can you come even close to music?
Enigma of China
9
Now in the case of free verse, free verse is as difficult as prose, I should say.
Borges at Eighty
10
Of course I made the mistake that all young men do, to think that free verse was easier.
Borges at Eighty
11
I've written nothing but free verse.
Enigma of China
12
I do not despise free verse.
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
13
At times he thought of taking to free verse, but the results of his efforts did not satisfy him.
The Plastic Age
14
She had left a city which sat up nights to talk of universal transition; of European revolution, guild socialism, free verse.
Main Street
15
Readers who are familiar with the experiments of contemporary poets will easily recognize four prevalent types of " free verse":
A Study of Poetry
16
In 1956 Ginsberg published Howl and Other Poems, a book of free verse considered the pre-eminent poetic work of the beat movement.
The Irish Times
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