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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Free verse.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

Etymologies

  1. French : vers, verse + libre, free. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “His undoubted merits in detail - his half-wistful cynicism, his capacity for evoking simple emotions, his deft skill at managing the puny difficulties of vers libre - were thereupon pumped up to such an extent that his defects were lost sight of.”

    Prejudices : first series,

  • “But we aren’t really conscious of the traditionalism of the French symbolists because French vers libre in English prose translation doesn’t rhyme.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

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