What is Free Verse and Light Verse?

[chelle21]

Dear Fellow Writers:

I'm a poetry writer in I need some advice I've trying to follow some guidelines that different poetry market are accepting but I never follow any guidelines until now. I wanted to know What is freeverse and lightverse? I also wanted to know what is juvenile poetry? I wanted to know because I never follow any guidelines I just write.

[Cassie88]

Chelle, I found this site. As you scan down the page, you'll find more detailed info about "free verse" etc.

http://forums.b-boys.com/vbforum/archive/index.php/t-158545.html

Before free verse, poetry writers followed strict meter: iambic, trochaic, etc. and the poems were broken into stanzas - couplets, quatrains, etc. I didn't have a chance to read through the site I've posted here, but as I scanned it, I read that Walt Whitman was the first writer to venture away from the norm.

I assume juvenile verse is poetry written for kids. Try "googling" it..you'll probably find some examples.

The site below talks about Light Verse - meaning, I think, that the subject matter is "light" or comical... not writing about a heavy subject or writing about any subject in a heavy, serious way.

www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_poetic_terms__k-m.htm (http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_poetic_terms__k-m.htm)

Well, I just tried to go to poetsgraves..wouldn't load,

but this next site gives you a glossary of poety terms and includes free verse, light verse, etc.

http://www.poetrypark.com/glossary.htm


I'm going back to bookmark the first site.

Hope this helps.

Cassie

[aspier]

I'll come back later maybe, ok?

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