(1) Our hearing is indissolubly wedded to five-beat Shakespearean blank verse, usually unrhymed iambic pentameter.(2) It's a strange, Verve-like moment of violin tremolo and stylized country made all the stranger by Toomey's lyrics, unrhymed , articulate and serious.(3) Rucellai's famous formal innovation is likewise significant here, for his is one of the earliest and most influential examples of versi sciolti, or unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.(4) Fear and desire come together powerfully in ‘Newsreel,’ a poem of unrhymed tercets set in a 1950s Texas drive-in filled with ‘Cathedral-like De Sotos and great-finned Pontiacs.’(5) He uses short unrhymed lines and colloquial phrases like ‘furniture gone wrong’ to portray the distinct voice of this locale.(6) I was writing unrhymed sonnets - the arbitrariness of the form, however vestigial, as a container.(7) Haiku, meaning a Japanese verse of three short, unrhymed lines, is an entirely appropriate title for Songdog's second album.(8) The trained memory is an impressive and admirable resource, but I doubt its techniques could catch the uncodified, non-systematic subtleties of our unrhymed interchanges as they happen, unedited, moment by moment.(9) Probably indebted in its basic structure - its long, irregular, unrhymed lines and its dignified but casual language - to the example of Walt Whitman, the poem sounded a note previously unheard in African American poetry.(10) His translations are unrhymed , elegant, and lucid; his use of stressed and unstressed syllables had, he believed, something in common with G. M. Hopkins's sprung rhythm.(11) From Wintering Out through North, Heaney had normally used an unrhymed quatrain with short lines of irregular metre.(12) Built from five unrhymed couplets, the poem is a ladder up the page, suggesting that the ladder is a metaphor for the poem itself.(13) O'Hara has divided the poem into four unrhymed quatrains, with each of first three consisting of one self-contained sentence.(14) My friend Phil Proctor just sent along a poem that I much enjoyed, ‘Forgetfulness,’ by Billy Collins - and I rarely enjoy unrhymed poems.(15) Haiku is unrhymed Japanese poetry consisting of 17 syllables, usually written in 3 lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively.(16) Much of this poetry fell squarely in the northern European tradition, and the literary revival of the north-west and the Midlands in the fourteenth century was mainly of alliterative, unrhymed verse.
