What exactly is free verse poetry?
I have read Whitman, William Carlos Williams, etc and can’t seem to find any sort of traditional rhyme or meter to them, but people have told me this is not free verse. So what exactly is free verse poetry?
- Tye S
Tags: Free Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, Traditional Rhyme, Whitman, William Carlos Williams
January 11th, 2009 at 2:43 am
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January 13th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Free verse is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole.
January 17th, 2009 at 6:18 am
It means that you don’t use paragraphing just scribble all over the place.
January 18th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Well to me it is just poetry that has no consturtive meaning or prose behind itself.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Verse Libre (Free Verse) in an old term which means non-rhyming iambs in groups 4, 5 or 6 (even more, sometimes). Basically, a Sonnet without rhyme.
Today, the term has changed. Free Form means just about anything with a discernible rhythm and artistic expression.
Ta Dah!
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
What people told you this? Whitman, for one, often wrote in free verse. “Song of Myself” has internal structure, certainly, but there is no rhyme/meter pattern applied throughout.
January 24th, 2009 at 7:28 am
In free verse poetry “the lines are not measured or counted for number of accents, number of syllables, or length of syllables” (John Drury). Read Walt Whitman, he was a master at writing free verse. Read his work, “Song of Myself.” Also read “The Cantos” by Ezra Pound. I’m sorry you were misinformed about Whitman. He did indeed write free verse poetry.
January 25th, 2009 at 3:11 am
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