Free
Verse
Free verse is unrhymed
poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific
metrical pattern.
The poetry of Walt Whitman provides
us with many examples.
Note the poem from Walt Whitman:
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.