Free verse is sometimes referred to as “open form’ verse, or by the French term vers libre. Like traditional verse, it is printed in short lines instead of in continuous lines of prose, but it differs from such verse by the fact that its rhythmic pattern is not organized into a regular metrical form—that is, into feet, or recurrent units of weak- and strong-stressed syllables. Most free verse also has irregular line lengths, and either lacks rhyme or else uses it only sporadically (Abrams 129). (Blank verse differs from unrhymed free verse in that it is metrically regular.)The lines in free verse often flow more naturally than rhymed, metrical lines and thus achieve a rhythm more like that of everyday human speech. Much 20" century poetry is written in free verse (Cruz 317)tis difficult get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. ~wiliam carlos williams, The Greeny FloweSpotlight on Figures of Speech based on comparison A simile is a state comparison (usually formed with “like,” “than,” or “as") between two fundamentally dissimilar or unlike things that have certain qualities in common. A simile is a direct comparison.! wandered lonely as a cloud My room's shaped like a cage. ~Daffodils, William Wordsworth ~Hotel, Guillaume Apollinaire Tonight I can write the saddest spring is lke a perhaps lines hand in a window ~poem of same title, Pablo Neruda ~spring, e.e. cummingsA Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristicsDivorce Once, two spoons in bed, now tined forks across a granite table and the knives they have hired. [2008]Personification is an attribution of human qualities or abilities to an inanimate object, an animal or an ideaThe Sky is low—the Clouds are mean A Travelling Flake of Snow Across a Barn or through a Rut Debates if it will go— A Narrow d complains all Day How some one treated him Nature, like Us, is sometimes caught Without her Diadem— ~Emily Dickinsonee ele Gunnar Ekeléf (September 15, 1907-March 16, 1968) was a Swedish poet. His lifelong inter mysticism was evident in his first book, Late Arrival on Earth, a collection of surrealist [unreal and bizarre] poems. In the 1940s and 50s he experimented with the application of musical forms to verse rk is admired for diversity and seriousness; its influence on Swedish poetry has been great (Cruz 317)Love is a Surgeon [Gunnar Ekel6f] Love isa surgeon Love ean cut into your flesh like a scalpel Love ean operate upon your heart Love Perhaps you don’t believe it But [ know love operates Upon your skin, your hait, your gait For love thet Except the surgeon's scalpel