Is there a general phrase for poems without rhyme schemes?

[Welloff]

I am helping ds2 with English gcse unseen poetry.

He can identify rhyme schemes, (ABAB) but is there a succinct way to say that a poem doesn’t have rhymes at the end of lines?

We wondered if it was “free verse” but I think that’s something else.....

Thank you

Free verse

Blank verse?

What if it has a regular metre? But no rhyme?

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Blank verse has no rhymes but regular metre, often based on iambic pentameters - think Shakespeare.
Free verse has no regular rhme or rhythm.

If you can name the poem, we might be able to give more specific advice :) Free verse sounds generally right, but there may be more specific terminolgoy which fits it.

Autumn by Alan Bold

It’s very melodic with uneven emphasis.
Is the word we need “inflected”?

That's a great poem - it's AQA unseen, isn't it?

It is 'free verse'.

However, it sounds like you want to be able to describe the rhythm more than rhyme (by using terms like 'melodic' and 'emphasis').

This links to metre, which (beyond iambic pentameter) is relatively complex, and not necessarily needed at GCSE.

It relates to stressed and unstressed syllables.

So, for example, the first line is made up of a trochee (Autumn) followed by an iamb (arrives), and the rhythm then varies throughout, giving it the melodic feel you describe.

As you can see, this then becomes very specific and unnecessarily complicated for a 24 mark question :) but hope it's useful nonetheless.

Thanks. We just said it was strongly inflected. Helps him figure out the significant bits!

Remember to comment on the effect of the free verse to avoid device spotting for AO2!

The first thing I think of with rigid/no structure is ideas about constraints vs freedom, predictability, monotony or lack thereof. How does that reinforce the ideas in the poem?

Thank you Mrs. We’ll build back up to that over the summer. Right now he’s all icing, no cake......