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Free verse



Free verse (from French vers libre), verse without conventional rhythm or meter, relying instead upon the cadences of the spoken language. It was first developed in 19th-century France as a reaction to the extreme formality of accepted styles. Among its exponents in English are Walt Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot.



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