Meaning & use
free verse
Poetry that does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or fixed meter.
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Walt Whitman's free verse broke from the strict rhythms common in earlier poetry.
The students wrote a piece of free verse describing their memories of summer.
A note on using this word
Free verse still uses rhythm and line breaks deliberately, even without a fixed pattern.
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