The unit in vers libre is not the foot, the number of the syllables, the quantity, or the line.
Practically all of Henley's London Voluntaries are written in it, and (so potent are names) until it was christened vers libre, no one thought of objecting to it.
The name vers libreis new, the thing, most emphatically, is not.
He had just finished reading one of his poems -- a vers libre poem, you know; all about Strength and Virility, and that sort of thing.
Fothy is going to get them printed -- he knows a lot of vers libre publishers -- if Papa will only put up the money.
And I have written the Epic of the Snore in vers libre.
Fothergil, being a vers libre poet, a Prophet of the Virile, a Little Brother of the Cosmic Urge, is compelled by what his verse is to stride vigorously across rooms as if they were vast desert places, in spite of what his toes are.
Vers libre," he says, "is the only medium in which I can convey more intimate moods.
He is successful with vers libre (which is decidedly uncommon) and even with rhymed vers libre (which is more uncommon still).
Vers libre is a very jolly medium in which to write and to read, if it be read conversationally and quietly.
In fact, my acquaintance with the Poet of Camden convinced me that his use of what is to-day called vers libre resembled somewhat Carlyle's Teutonic contortions of style.
The truth is that vers libre has its place, and it ought to have a high place; but the writer who attempts it must have a very perfect ear for the nuances of music and great art in his technique applied to the use of words.
This beauty might be none the less beautiful if expressed in vers libre; its beauty might take a new flavour from our time.
Sanger, belongs to that abnormal and lamentable type of pseudo-literature known as =vers libre=, and is the first serious specimen of its kind ever inflicted upon the United.
That she possesses genuine poetic genius is amply evident, even from the specimen of =vers libre= before us.
Without undue flattery to Master Trafford, we may conclusively state that we deem his poem a great deal better than most of the =vers libre= effusions which so many of his elders are perpetrating nowadays!
But it is certain that the agitation for the vers libre in France these latter years has been one of the manifestations of the prevalent revolutionary spirit.
But Serres Chaudes did not appear till 1889, and even then the majority of the poems in the volume were rhymed and regular; so that it could hardly be claimed that Maeterlinck was the originator of the vers libre.
Next day when the Rajah noticed the look of horror in the girl's eyes as he rattled off his vers libre he retired as gracefully as possible and quickly arrayed himself in his most attractive attire of Rajahship.
And the girl was hardly to blame for her credulity, for he never tired of pouring his flamboyant rhetoric in Malayan vers libre into her ears.
His voice seemed tender as a woman's as he poured forth his semi-Mohammedanistic vers libre.
A difference with Morris might have arisen, of course, over the now long-discussed question of vers libre, but who are we to dig up that Babylon?
Versification: A conviction as to the rightness or wrongness of vers libre is no guarantee of a poet.
I doubt if there is much use trying to classify the various kinds of vers libre, but there is an anarchy which may be vastly overdone; and there is a monotony of bad usage as tiresome as any typical eighteenth or nineteenth century flatness.
If you refine the art of the troubadours, combine it with that of the Pleiade, and add to that the sound-unit principle of the most advanced artists in vers libre, you would get something like the system of Bengali verse.
And now that young Englishmen are beginning to feel the influence of Whitman upon French poetry, it may be that he too, through the imitation of vers libre in America, will begin to experience a "perfect return.
Bergeret to his pupil, “are you still asserting the pre-eminence of vers libre?
But I must, nevertheless, confess that vers libre baffles me and I cannot even grasp the definition of it.
I am teaching him to write vers libre and prose poems and he is beginning to compose prose sketches of military life.
The cockroach, endowed by some freak of transmigration with the shining soul of a vers libre poet, is a thoroughly Marquisian whimsy.
The temporary loss of control must be set off against the freedom which vers libre-ists claim from irrelevant or stereotyped images suggested by the necessity of rhyme or a difficult metre.
If, indeed, as the vers libre practitioners insist, each idea comes clothed in its own inevitable rhythm, there can be very little trouble about the matter.
That is the worst of vers libre; one gets carried away by beautiful phrases and is brought up suddenly by a complete absence of verbs.
When you are writing in metre you come eventually to the eighth line of the last verse and you have to stop; but in vers libre you have no assistance of that kind.
On the whole, therefore, this poem had better be vers libre.
Gustave Kalm and Jules Laforgue were the first who did away, the one with rhyme and the other with the Alexandrine, and introduced the apparent irregularities of the vers libre.
His attitude with regard to the vers libre was by no means due to this influence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vers libre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
