free+verse

speech. Most poets have explained that free verse is, despite its freedom, not entirely free. Free verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of a poetic line in some sense. However, because of a lack of a predetermined form, the poet possesses more license to express, and has more control over the development of the poem.
 * Free verse** is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural


 * Examples:**

//After the Sea-Ship// by Walt Whitman
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;

Sisters

She calls me tofu because I am so soft, Easily falling apart.

I wish I were tough, and full of fire like ginger,--- Like her.

By : Anonymous