free verse

The definition of free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

(noun)

An example of free verse is Walt Whitman's "I Dream'd in a Dream."

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See free verse in Webster's New World College Dictionary

poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic forms

See free verse in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern.

Origin:

Origin: Translation of French vers libre

Origin: : vers, verse

Origin: + libre, free

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