: not rhyming or formed with rhyming words : not rhymed
unrhymed couplets
unrhymed lyrics
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Senryu is akin to haiku—three unrhymed lines in a five-seven-five-syllable sandwich—but instead of focusing on nature, senryu examines human nature.
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Danny Freedman, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
The book received plenty of praise, but many critics missed the point, describing Betts’s work as raw and gritty, when the title poem is entirely in blank verse — unrhymed iambic pentameter.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
That unrhymed couplet has got to rile folk-music Commies who have forsaken their old convictions.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Dec. 2020
Simply put, a haiku is an unrhymed Japanese poem spread across three lines that contain five, seven and five syllables, respectively.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
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Danny Freedman, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
The book received plenty of praise, but many critics missed the point, describing Betts’s work as raw and gritty, when the title poem is entirely in blank verse — unrhymed iambic pentameter.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
That unrhymed couplet has got to rile folk-music Commies who have forsaken their old convictions.
—Armond White, National Review, 2 Dec. 2020
Simply put, a haiku is an unrhymed Japanese poem spread across three lines that contain five, seven and five syllables, respectively.
—Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
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“Unrhymed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unrhymed. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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