Poetry 101: What Is the Difference Between Blank Verse and Free Verse? – 2022 – MasterClass

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with free verse during his career.

In France, a parallel poetic form called “vers libre” was also developing. (The term translates literally as “free verse.”) French poets including Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé—many of