free verse
nounDefinition of free verse
: verse whose meter is irregular in some respect or whose rhythm is not metrical
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure. — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, "Write Stuff: ‘Sex and the City’ author takes on life over 50," 7 Aug. 2019 The language of James Joyce or E. E. Cummings suggests an alluring parallel to Internet-ese, as do other twentieth-century innovations (free verse, stream of consciousness, profanity) that asked an unbuttoned style to represent human interiority. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, "Is the Internet Making Writing Better?," 26 July 2019 His style is like free verse, at once spare and dense with feeling and meaning. — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, "Children’s Books: Five Brothers, Abandoned," 11 Oct. 2018 Somehow, Acevedo’s powerful free verse manages to stay contained within the book’s covers. — Julie Fogliano, New York Times, "Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People," 13 Apr. 2018 On Thursday, May 10, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., a flying with Words workshop will teach how to give free verse more rhythm and flow. — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, "Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, Blanche McCrary Boyd To Give Book Talks," 2 May 2018 Still, the focus here remains the lyrics, which seem to flow unbidden from Elverum in long streams of hyper-detailed, confessional free verse. — Terence Cawley, BostonGlobe.com, "On ‘Now Only,’ Mount Eerie peers into a void," 14 Mar. 2018 Reynolds writes this in free verse, an effective strategy that packs an emotional punch. — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, "New in young-adult fiction: authors tackle gun violence, sexual assault, domestic abuse," 25 Jan. 2018 Douglas, evidently not a fan of free verse, was unmoved. — Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle, "‘The Most Dangerous Man in America,’ by Minutaglio and Davis," 5 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'free verse.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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