Sample Sentences forfree verse (auto-selected)
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Quatrains and free verse about the struggle, tortures, the unbroken spirit, love of friends who had died for the cause.† (source)
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Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ....I read it and felt that in a clumsy way it linked white life with black, merged two streams of common experience.† (source)
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They told him in all earnestness that he had a mind like Shelley's, and featured his ultrafree free verse and prose poetry in the Nassau Literary Magazine.† (source)
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She had left a city which sat up nights to talk of universal transition; of European revolution, guild socialism, free verse.† (source)
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Tom produced a folded paper from his pocket and read aloud, pausing at intervals so that Amory could see that it was free verse: "So Walter Arensberg, Alfred Kreymborg, Carl Sandburg, Louis Untermeyer, Eunice Tietjens, Clara Shanafelt, James Oppenheim, Maxwell Bodenheim, Richard Glaenzer, Scharmel Iris, Conrad Aiken, I place your names here So that you may live If only as names, Sinuous, mauve-colored names, In the Juvenalia Of my collected editions."† (source)
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It is written in free verse.†
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