Free-verse
An overview by Jodi Cook
History of Free-verse
This is more irregular it was practiced in the 19th century poets such as Gustave Kahn and Jules Laforgue in 1890.
Purpose of free-verse
Characteristics of Poetic Form
Example of a poetic form
After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;
Work Cited
"Free Verse." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Nov. 2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2014.
"Free Verse." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2014.
"Forms of Verse: Free Verse." Victoria and Albert Museum, Online Museum, Web Team, Webmaster@vam.ac.uk. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2014.