Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1869; Englishing of vers libre.
Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.
WordNet
n. unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern [syn: vers libre]
Wikipedia
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 speech.
Usage examples of "free verse".
If she wanted to match him in the generation of original free verse—.
Most of my poems are conventionally free verse, or they keep their rhymes safely out of sight a la cummings.
Spanish is so musical that a soap powder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in English—.
Spanish is so musical that a soappowder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in EnglishÄ.
Spanish is so musical that a soap powder commercial in Spanish is more pleasing to the ear than the best free verse in English-the Spanish language is so beautiful that much of its poetry sounds best if the listener does not understand the meaning.
We are men of the world, in everythingsex, free verse, marksmanship.
But accent structure can degenerate into mere broken prose,' like free verse, which is basic form used for advertising copy.
On a coffee table, as in a dentist's office, were slick magazines, in casual disarray, with titles like Literature and Wit, The Poetic Athanor, The Rose and the Thorn, The Italic Parnassus, Free Verse.
I make one single comment the other day that I enjoyed reading the old free verse of the twentieth century .