free verse

1. 1.

   unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern

   Synonymsvers libre

   Broaderpoem

Questions about free verse

What does free verse mean?

free verse means "unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern".

What is another word for free verse?

Close synonyms include vers libre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is free verse a common word?

free verse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.