breathe and free verse

Our American grandfather of poetry, Walt Whitman, wrote by the human breath; each line breaks where the breath comes to a pause, whether as short as a comma or the full stop of a period. These long lines are both out of vogue and slightly impractical, especially since there are certain conventions about how poetry [...]

Free Verse

Free verse is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using strict meter, rythum, or rhyme, but still recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole.

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