Free verse poetry

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Free Verse

When you write traditional verse, you are bound by rules. Rhyme, meter, stanza, length of line, and more are set up for you depending on which poetry form you have chosen. With free verse, you get to be the boss. You get to decide where to break your lines, which type of stanza to use,

Free verse is a type of poetry that doesn't use rhyme or regular meter. It has no set form, but it can have a pattern in the way words are used. Lines usually

There are thirty poems on thirty-one pages in a 6″ by 9″ format. Both rhyming and free-verse poems are included. A sample page is shown below. Read a review at https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/some-poems-about-life. All of Bob’s books are available on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bob+welbaum&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss).

Post by Catsi Eceer, co-founder I was looking through the poetry posts earlier, and realized that we'd never done a post on free verse poems. Seeing as I write free verse almost exclusively, I thought I'd step up to the plate and scribble something down. Here I am twenty minutes later, still staring at a blank screen. The funny thing about free verse poetry is that, well, they're free verse. There's no specific rhythm or meter. They don't need to rhyme. They don't really need to do anything…

I absolutely love teaching poetry! That explains why I teach it ALL year! Each month I focus on TWO types of poetry and then during POETRY MONTH, we review all of our work, create poetry portfolios for a review, and have a POETRY SLAM! Read on for details! 1. BULLETIN BOARD At the beginning of the year, make a bulletin board to display posters of the different types of poetry. Leave a space below each one to place a student example. Review it with your class and tell them by the end of the…