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The 67 pages that link to Free verse, each with the reason it gives.

• Mina LoyRelated: Loy’s irregular rhythms and lineation helped make her poems formally disruptive.

• Nâzım HikmetRelated: Hikmet used flexible rhythms and conversational language to break with inherited poetic forms.

• Nima YooshijCompared with: Yooshij’s variable lines are sometimes confused with free verse, though his poems retain metrical organization.

• Saint-John PerseNarrower topic: His long lines and rhythmic prose-like movement extend beyond conventional metrical forms.

• Vicente AleixandreRelated: Its flexible rhythms let Aleixandre sustain expansive, image-rich poetic movement.

• Bei DaoRelated: His poems use flexible lineation rather than relying on inherited regular forms.

• Bruce DaweRelated: Flexible rhythms let Dawe echo conversation, commands, and the uneven pace of ordinary experience.

• Carlos Drummond de AndradeRelated: Drummond used flexible rhythms to give many poems a conversational, unsettled movement.

• History of poetryRelated: Its spread altered expectations about what counted as poetic form.

• Nicolás GuillénCompared with: Its flexible lineation contrasts with the tightly patterned musical repetitions in many poems.

• Rupi KaurNarrower topic: Kaur’s poems commonly use short, unmetered lines rather than formal stanza patterns.

• Salah Ahmed IbrahimRelated: Modern poetic forms helped widen the expressive possibilities available to Sudanese poets of his generation.

• Sharon OldsRelated: Her conversational lines use enjambment and pacing to give intimate disclosures a spoken force.

• Tristan CorbièreRelated: Corbière’s rhythmic freedom and resistance to regularity helped make him relevant to later formal experiments.

• Ultraist movementRelated: Ultraists used loosened poetic forms to break with inherited conventions.

• UnanimismRelated: Its flexible rhythms suited Romains’s attempts to convey shifting collective voices.

• Yusuf al-KhalRelated: Its acceptance formed part of the wider modernist transformation al-Khal supported.