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I have read Whitman, William Carlos Williams, etc and can't seem to find any sort of traditional rhyme or meter to them, but people have told me this is not free verse. So what exactly is free verse poetry?Verse Libre (Free Verse) in an old term which means non-rhyming iambs in groups 4, 5 or 6 (even more, sometimes). Basically, a Sonnet without rhyme.
Today, the term has changed. Free Form means just about anything with a discernible rhythm and artistic expression.
Ta Dah!In free verse poetry "the lines are not measured or counted for number of accents, number of syllables, or length of syllables" (John Drury). Read Walt Whitman, he was a master at writing free verse. Read his work, "Song of Myself." Also read "The Cantos" by Ezra Pound. I'm sorry you were misinformed about Whitman. He did indeed write free verse poetry.What people told you this? Whitman, for one, often wrote in free verse. "Song of Myself" has internal structure, certainly, but there is no rhyme/meter pattern applied throughout.It means that you don't use paragraphing just scribble all over the place.Well to me it is just poetry that has no consturtive meaning or prose behind itself.Free verse is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent whole.Check this:verse poetry that you don't have to pay for.