Free-verse


noun, Prosody.
1.
verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
noun
1.
unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern
n.

1908; see vers libre.

Verse without regular meter or rhyme. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, is written almost entirely in free verse.

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