Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 8 AIL 0738 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: Free Verse as the Default
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The idea
Candidates label anything irregular as free verse. A poem with an unusual rhyme scheme is still a closed form, and a poem in loose blank verse is not free verse at all. Check for metre before concluding that pattern is absent.
In practice
Irregular is not the same as free.
Where people slip
Check for metre before concluding.
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