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Choose the poem that is free verse.You are less an image in my mindthan a lusterI see you in gleamspale as star-light on a gray wall . . .evanescent as the reflection of a white swanshimmering in broken water.First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!

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Choose the poem that is free verse.You are less an image in my mindthan a lusterI see you in gleamspale as star-light on a gray wall . . .evanescent as the reflection of a white swanshimmering in broken water.First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!

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Solution

The first poem is a free verse poem. Free verse is a type of poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme, and this can be seen in the first poem. The lines do not have a specific rhythm or rhyme scheme, and the language is more conversational and natural.

The second poem, on the other hand, has a clear and regular rhyme scheme (AABCCB), which is not characteristic of free verse poetry.

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