Forms defined by the deliberate absence or loosening of a fixed metrical or rhyme pattern: unrhymed iambic pentameter's blank verse, unmetered free verse, prose poetry's abandonment of the line altogether, concrete poetry's use of typographic shape, and stream of consciousness's unbroken flow of thought. Belongs here: a form whose identity is its departure from fixed metrical convention. Does not belong here: any of the fixed forms grouped above, however loosely a given poem in this atlas happens to follow them.
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