Writing unrhymed blank verse is like playing tennis without a net. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : a word that rhymes with orange. ,poetry that rhymes. From Dictionary.com.
I wonder if the poem wants to be an unrhymed villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [With additional impractical poem] Reference
It is a moving poem, of which my unrhymed literal translation can only give a hint. From Wordnik.com. [August 29th Poetic Ticker Clicking] Reference
McCormick's unrhymed verse seems to ride the fragility of Lakshmi's bruised spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Sold: Summary and book reviews of Sold by Patricia McCormick.] Reference
Sandra Beasley, in Pebble Lake Review, has an fine expostulation in unrhymed quatrains. From Wordnik.com. [remarkable newness : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Blank verse is usually unrhymed iambic pentameter, or some other unrhymed regular meter. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: The Best Genre Related Books/Films/Shows/Games Consumed In 2008 (Part III)] Reference
Free-verse (or, as Miss Lowell prefers, 'unrhymed cadence') is a hydra-headed phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
On his birthday in March 2002 he embarked on a sequence of unrhymed sonnets entitled Endpoint. From Wordnik.com. [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference
Most of the bad adolescent poetry – unless, perhaps, it is written as song lyrics – is unrhymed. From Wordnik.com. [Quick Review 03 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Some have crossed over completely, writing poems in unrhymed and generally unmusical paragraphs (gasp!). From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: Trouble At The Poetry/Prose Border] Reference
Lowell's work accumulated, piling up in more than a thousand unrhymed sonnets known as the notebook poems. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of Heartbreak] Reference
Each participant would write two lines -- sometimes couplets, sometimes unrhymed -- then would pass it along. From Wordnik.com. [too cute] Reference
The most common form for the poetic composition is the unrhymed iambic pentameter or blank verse (heroic measure). From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Before that, the writer might have attempted narratives in verse, or verse drama, rhymed or unrhymed; or verse epics. From Wordnik.com. [On Being a Writer] Reference
But there is a vast difference between such blemishes of the unrhymed heroic measure as terminating a line with "and," "of," or. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Rhymed and unrhymed poetry about the intersection of work and motherhood, including classic forms such as the sonnet and sestina. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
A haiku expresses a single feeling or impression and contains three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [haiku] Reference
Throughout The Second Child, Garrison works in varied meters, rhymed and unrhymed, and forms that include the sonnet and the sestina. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Garrison Finds Poetry at the Intersection of Work and Motherhood « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Moreover it would be wrong to suppose that this earlier blank verse was always stilted and cut up into end-stopt lines and unrhymed couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
The following are the extant poems on native heroic themes, written in one or other of the dialects of the Teutonic group, and in unrhymed alliterative measures. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
If you like poetry (unrhymed) and would like to contribute to Elena's creative efforts, she requests your perusal of and comments about her work at the Cozy Corner. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference
Their oratory was unrhymed poetry, and it had the humanity of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of England] Reference
Positively, even rhymes left unrhymed in 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
Goethe, Heine, Matthew Arnold, and Henley, in wholly unrhymed irregular lyrical verse. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference
Verse; unrhymed and half-disrhythmed prose; prose pure and simple: that is what we find. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. From Wordnik.com. [A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass] Reference
Except where a popular song was adapted, the form was usually rhymed or more often unrhymed couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties] Reference
A great deal of unrhymed poetry is yet to be written in the various standard rhythms and in carefully fashioned metres. From Wordnik.com. [Toward the Gulf] Reference
A passage or two of the unrhymed thoughts, with long periods of interval, will suggest the course of her mental history. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
In his "Observations" Campion gives us a few specimen-poems written in the unrhymed metres that he proposed to introduce. From Wordnik.com. [Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age] Reference
Ludvigsen had written an unrhymed song about true love, which was sung at the feast, and Louisa eclipsed all the other bridesmaids. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Two Countries] Reference
The Campion connection interests me personally because Campion was the protagonist of unrhymed lyrical verse -- my special metrical hobby. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
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