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Meanings of vers libre in English

Portuguese
verso livre
Catalan
vers lliure

Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern.

verso livre
Synonyms
Examples for "free verse"
Examples for "free verse"
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
Usage of vers libre in English
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
6
Fothy is going to get them printed -he knows a lot of vers libre publishers -if Papa will only put up the money.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
7
Therefore, Vers Libre Muse, help me!
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
8
(Fothergil Finch, the Vers Libre Bard)
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
Translations for vers libre
Portuguese
verso livre