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vers libre

[ vair lee-bruh; French ver lee-bruh ]

vers libre

/ vɛr librə /

noun

  1. (in French poetry) another term for free verse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vers libre1

Borrowed into English from French around 1915–20
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Example Sentences

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The elder poet was presented with a small stone casket full of poems written by the younger men, poems that struck him as “word problems”: incomprehensibly Modern, most of them in vers libre.

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From the French symbolist poet Paul Fort she learned a technique of writing "polyphonic prose" – prose which used the different voices of poetry, such as "metre, vers libre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme and return".

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In his treatment of vers libre our author is not too sympathetic.

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For all I know, Zipp is a poet—his smile is lyrical, and in his roving eyes there is a suggestion of vers libre.

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But the founders of the vers libre, I am told, had never heard of this book.

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