Free Verse Definition

noun
Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.
American Heritage
Poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic forms.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Free Verse

  • Translation of French vers libre vers verse libre free

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • A calque of French vers libre.

    From Wiktionary

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