Free+verse

=Definition=
 * Poetry not written in a regular meter and which usually does not rhyme
 * While free verse poetry is not regular in its rhythm or meter, it is intentional.

=Notable Examples:=
 * Much modern poetry is written in a free verse style. It can range from the totally alternative form, like E.E. Cummings's [|Buffalo Bill], to a more 'traditional' free verse, often with short lines, like in Amy Lowell's [|A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.]
 * While free verse poetry is not regular in its rhythm or meter, it is intentional. See, for example, how Gwendolyn Brooks makes the first stanza of [|The Coora Flower] look like an entry in an almanac or encyclopedia.
 * In American literature, Walt Whitman is often considered the first major poet to use a free verse form.

=Why it's used=
 * Poets broke forth from traditionally metered poems in order to meet goals of form that were more important to them. William Carlos Williams, for example, tried to use his free verse form to imitate the natural rhythm of human speech.