Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1814 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Free Verse Becomes Normal
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The idea
The glossary defines free verse as poetry without a set rhyme scheme or rhythm pattern. In this band it stops being an experiment and becomes the default. A twentieth-century poem that does rhyme is making a choice the reader should notice.
In practice
Free verse becomes the default.
Where people slip
Rhyme now marks a choice.
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