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Walt Whitman was one of the first Americans to write poems that imitated normal speech without adhering to a regular meter or rhyme scheme. This verse form is called
A
free verse
_x
slow verse
C
blank verse
D
ironic rhyme

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A — free verse.
Whitman’s poems (e.g., Leaves of Grass) use free verse: poetry that follows natural speech rhythms without regular meter or rhyme.