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Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

— Amy Lowell Can Grande's Castle (1921)

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You are beautiful and faded
Like an old opera tune
Played upon a harpsichord.

Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

I have lived in a place,
I shall die in a place,
I have no craving for distant lands.
But a place is nothing, not even space,
Unless at its heart a figure stands.

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