Read this excerpt from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden. Here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. The seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is. O light beheld as through refracting tears. Here is the aura of that world each of us has lost. Here is the shadow of its joy. What is the best evidence that this poem is written in free verse?
A
It has no repeating words.Free verse does not follow a regular, repeating meter or rhyme scheme. The excerpt’s lines have varying rhythms rather than a consistent pattern of stressed syllables, so the best evidence is that it has no set meter: choice B. Alliteration and stanza count can appear in many kinds of poems and do not show that a poem is free verse.
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