Perhaps three-fourths of the greatest English poetry is in the unrimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Tennyson's 'O Swallow, Swallow' in The Princess is in unrimed triplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Tennyson's unrimed lyrics and Collins 'Ode to Evening are unusual, though successful, experiments. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Hills, and like him, they wrote in the Anglo-Saxon verse form, alliterative, unrimed, and in this case without stanza divisions. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
It is not always easier to write in unrimed measures, for, as Milton proudly implied, good blank verse is the most difficult of all metres. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
'Horatian' ode forms, that is in regular short stanzas, the 'Ode Written in the Year 1746' and the 'Ode to Evening' (unrimed), are particularly fine. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The verse is unrimed, not arranged in stanzas, and with lines more commonly end-stopped (with distinct pauses at the ends) than is true in good modern poetry. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The meter, also, is interesting -- the Anglo-Saxon unrimed alliterative verse, but divided into long stanzas of irregular length, each ending in a 'bob' of five short riming lines. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
The idea of writing unrimed verse was no doubt the most valuable result to English poetry of the academic attempts, towards the end of the sixteenth century, to write classical verse in English. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
In rimed verse the end of the line is so emphasized that the line itself stands out as a very perceptible rhythmic unit; in unrimed verse, however, the line is frequently not felt as a unit at all, but is so interwoven with the natural prose rhythm of the words as to be almost indistinguishable to the ear, though of course visible to the eye on the printed page. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Heyne chose a new medium for his version, the unrimed iambic line. From Wordnik.com. [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference
Finally, it was written in an unusual verse form, the unrimed hexameter, which. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference
Most of the lines rime, but without any fixed order, and lines are often left unrimed. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference
It consists of five unrimed stanzas, all but one ending with an emphatic 'Thou big thing'. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
BLANK VERSE, unrimed 5-stress lines used continuously, 94, 133 ff., ch. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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