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Is 5 by E. E. Cummings, an example of free verse. Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ...
Doggerel: a bad verse, traditionally characterized by clichés, clumsiness, and irregular meter. Free verse and vers libre: an open form of poetry that does not use consistent of meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern, therefore tending to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Knittelvers; Heroic verse
This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in literary academia.
Mlokhim-Bukh (Old Yiddish epic poem based on the Biblical Books of Kings) Book of Dede Korkut (Oghuz Turks) Le Morte d'Arthur (Middle English) Morgante (Italian) by Luigi Pulci (1485), with elements typical of the mock-heroic genre; The Wallace by Blind Harry (Scots chivalric poem) Troy Book by John Lydgate, about the Trojan war (Middle English)
The New British Poetry; New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950; New Poets of England and America; The New Poetry, A. Alvarez ed. New Provinces, F.R. Scott ed. Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970; Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse; Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse; Oxford Book of English Verse; Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935
After World War II, there was a largely unsuccessful modernist movement [64] [65] by several poets to write poems in free verse (shi'r hurr). [66] [67] [68] [55] [69] Thus, in 1947 the two Iraqi poets, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Nazik al-Malaika initiated a break in the stanza form (bayt) for free verse.
Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters's home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town ...
These two poems are remarkable not only as exceptions within Illuminations itself, but as two of the first free verse poems written in the French language. [7] Within the genres of prose poetry and vers libre, the poems of Illuminations bear many stylistic distinctions.