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Provide an original example of a free verse stanza of poetry. Identify why your poem would be considered free verse.

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"AFTER the Sea-Ship--after the whistling winds;

After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:

Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

Waves, undulating waves--liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,

Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface ..."

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Answer:

free verse means the free verse poem stanza is a free verse

Step-by-step explanation:

there is mo rhyming, or fixed metrical pattern

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