How To Use free verse In A Sentence
- Alison Croggon speaks of ‘a dreadful orthodoxy’ that has ‘rushed in to fill the vacuum left by conventional rhyme, a free verse which is anything but free or verse’.
- Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Robert Frost
- Write free verse like playing tennis with the net down.
- So now Pound was safe, and he became the cracker-barrel philosopher of free verse. THE ANTHOLOGIST
- Leaving behind the triumvirate, we enter into the duple meter of blank and, then, free verse. THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
- Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter.
- Robert Frost once classed poetry that way, free verse against formal verse.
- The rhythmic cadence of the poetry was not the iambic pentameter or other such metrical patterns but free verse with words scattered randomly across the printed page.
- The most obvious question here is if free verse is so ‘free’, then what will differentiate it from prose?
- This stanza is typical of his middle free verse style; a varying caesura keeps the music graceful but slightly off-balance.