Free Verse (poetry)

Created: March 14, 2021 11:17 AM
Forest status: #soil
Last Edited: 2022-12-31
Topics: Literary devices

Free verse is different from Blank Verse : it’s unrhymed and has no regular metre or regular line lengths.

Example by T. E. Hulme:

A touch of cold in the Autumn night –
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
And round about were the wistful stars
With white faces like town children.

Free verse can still have a loose rhythm, which isn't rigidly enforced throughout the poem. Poets can frequently return to this rhythm to give a sense of cohesion to the poem or connection between ideas.