Usually means: Poetry without fixed rhythm, structure.
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  1. free verse: Merriam-Webster
  2. free verse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. free verse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. free verse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. free verse: Vocabulary.com
  6. free-verse: Wordnik
  7. free verse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. free verse: Wiktionary
  9. free verse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. free verse: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. free verse: Dictionary.com
  12. Free verse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. free verse: Rhymezone
  14. free verse: FreeDictionary.org
  15. free verse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. free verse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. free verse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. FREE VERSE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (free verse)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.

Similar:
vers libre, blank verse, blank, freewrite, refractory rhyme, rhymelessness, nonaccent, poemlessness, poetrylessness, freewriting, more...

Opposite:
metrical, metre, poetry

Types:
prose poetry, haiku, sonnet, villanelle, ghazal, tanka, sestina, pantoum, more...

Adjectives:
rhymeless, psychological, unrhymed, substanceless, pointless, purportless, acephalous, voiceless, characterless, faceless, paperless

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Similar:
vers libre, blank verse, blank, freewrite, refractory rhyme, rhymelessness, nonaccent, poemlessness, poetrylessness, freewriting, more...

Opposite:
metrical, metre, poetry

Types:
prose poetry, haiku, sonnet, villanelle, ghazal, tanka, sestina, pantoum, more...

Adjectives:
rhymeless, psychological, unrhymed, substanceless, pointless, purportless, acephalous, voiceless, characterless, faceless, paperless



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