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Well, Josephine, one would be Fats Domino on jazz, "If you don't know by now, lady ..." Two might be Robert Frost, playing tennis without a net. Three is usually nobody can -- so if you can come up with a definition ... Four is watch the line-endings. In formal (metered) verse, you know when you've reached the end of the line when you reach the right number of syllables. Free verse is more complicated, which is why (despite appearances) it's actually more difficult to write well than metrical verse. Five (last one, promise!) is that most free verse is loose iambic pentameter unrhymed. (Oh, and it means something different in English than it does in French.) Cheers Robin (PS -- Henry isn't writing free verse in his example, but ripping WCW. Yet Another Wheelbarrow in the Rain. Typical Henry. Ro2) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Printmaker" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Definitions > Henry wrote: > > > > Can someone > > define > > "free verse" > > please? > > > > Can someone define "free > > verse" please? > > > > Can > > someone define > > "free verse" > > > > please? > > > > Pretty please? > > > Ha Ha very funny > > If its completely unstructured how is it verse? mmmmm? > > And if its structured, what are the 'rules'? > > Still trying to reconcile the definition > "its not even good prose" > as a requirement of good poetry > in light of much of what is posted here > > confused, hopefully temporarily > > jospehine