What are White Verses?

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In the theory of literature, the white verses, also called “loose verses” are those that do not have rhyme schemes, however they may have metric (measurement).

White verses have been widely used since the 18th century in Brazil, especially in romantic, modern and contemporary poetry.

Note that the verse is the name given to a line of poetry, and the set of them is called a stanza. The rhyme represents the approximation of sounds between the words of a verse.

Metrification and Verification

The art of composing verses and bringing together various aspects of poetic texts, such as musicality, rhyme, rhythm and chaining is called versification.

In turn, the study on the measures presented on the back is called meterification, made through the process called scansão de verses.

In such a way, scansion is the counting of poetic syllables by joining a few syllables when there is a weak and strong sound and only up to the last stressed syllable of each verse.

Remember that meter is the measure of the back and meter is the study of those measures. In addition, we must pay attention to the differences between poetic syllables (which admits sound and musicality) and grammatical syllables (according to the norms of the language) for example:

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The / poet / ta is / a / fin / gi / pain - 7 literary syllables

The / po / e / ta / is / a / fin / gi / pain - 9 Grammatical Syllables

Types of Verses

According to the meter (measurement of the verses) used in poetic texts, they are classified into:

  • Monosyllable: a poetic syllable
  • disyllable: two poetic syllables
  • Trisyllable: three poetic syllables
  • Tetrasyllable: four poetic syllables
  • pentasyllable or Small roundel: five poetic syllables
  • hexasyllable: six poetic syllables
  • heptasyllable or Bigger round: seven poetic syllables
  • octosyllable: eight poetic syllables
  • Eneasyllable: nine poetic syllables
  • decasyllable: ten poetic syllables
  • hendecasyllable: eleven poetic syllables
  • dodecasyllable or Alexandrian: twelve poetic syllables
  • Barbarian Verse: verse with more than twelve poetic syllables

White Verses and Free Verses

When we talk about white verses, we should not confuse them with the definition of free verses, called irregular verses (heterometric).

We have already highlighted above that the white verses are those that do not have rhyme, however, the verses free represent the verses that do not have a defined measure, that is, they do not follow the scheme of meterification.

Therefore, a poem can present free and white verses at the same time

Example of White Verses and Free Verses

To better exemplify the concept of white and free verses (verses without rhyme and meter), observe the poem below by writer Mário Quintana (1906-1994):

Hope

“Right on the top of the twelfth floor of the Year

Lives a madwoman called Hope

And she thinks when all the sirens

all horns

All reco-recoes play

throw yourself

AND

— O delicious flight!

She will be found miraculously unharmed on the sidewalk,

Again child...

And around her the people will ask:

"What's your name, little girl with green eyes?"

and she will tell you

(You have to tell them all over again!)

She will tell you very slowly so that you don't forget:

— My name is ES-PE-RAN-ÇA..."

Example of White Verses

In the work entitled "my dearest verses” (1967) by the Brazilian writer Guilherme de Almeida (1890-1969), there is a poem called “white verses”, which adds the concept itself, that is, it does not have rhymes:

white verses

"A fine nostalgia goes on and on

the weary stillness of my boredom.

But miss what? from who...

The days

are crystal balls, blue, polished,

smooth without a treacherous edge

where it comes to get caught and torn apart

the veil of thought from another time;

without even the hiding of a cloud

where is a long look

looking at the ashes of these moments;

not a strong shadow to hide

a lost piece of the past...

Everything around me is luminous,

tall and soft, slippery and beautiful;

everything is just a lucid present:

is the perfect negation of longing...

And yet – why? by whom... - I see

and I hear my life pass on earth

singing a slow song

of water that carries flowers on the way down..."

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