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Free verse

Free verse poetry does not have a particular structure or template that it follows and does not usually rhyme. In fact, the most characteristic aspect of free verse is that there is irregularity in the rhythm and length of lines in the poem. Some types of repetition may be used in free verse, however - a word, structure, even a type of imagery may be repeated through the poem. Here is an example by Milton:

But patience is more oft the exercise

Of Saints, the trial of thir fortitude,

Making them each his own Deliver,

And Victor over all

That tyranny or fortune can inflict.