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What type of verse form is used in walt whitmans i hear america singing and in langston hughes's i,too?

a. heroic couplet
b. free verse
c. blank verse
d. sonnet
e. haiku

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They are both written in B - free verse. That means that there is no metrical pattern, or no schematic rhyme involved. 
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The type of verse form used in walt whitmans I hear america singing and in langston hughes's i,too is free verse. Option B is correct.

Free verse is an open form of poetry. Free verse is a literary device defined as poetry which does not have limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms, so that rhymes do not follow any prestablished rules. However, free verse is no totally free,

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