01-14-2013, 08:02 AM
(01-14-2013, 07:19 AM)Card Wrote: I mean... seriously guys, what part of that don't y'all understand?there will be a lot on the site that wouldn't know free verse if it ate their kids. their are many who don't know the difference between free and blank verse.
whitman used some grammar in his free verse at times which gave a lot of it rhythm, and there is a school of poets that say it's just a different form. i agree that it's poetry. i also think it's harder than many who use it believe it to be. what i find funny is all the people who say you can't use meter or rhyme and that it has no rhythm. in some of the best free verse you'll see both rhythm and structure. often patterns which can exists in free verse are hard to see.
but they do exist. usually it has no consistent meter and may swap from one meter to another. the good exponents can set up and use different meters in order to create patterns. of meter within meter.