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As a modern solution to portrait poets’ emotions, free verse is essentially important. There is a lot of difference in attitude toward the exact date of its arising and disadvantages and advantages in contrast to classic and traditional verse among critiques. Some of them believe that Arabic free verse is stemmed in Acrostic verse – a type of vernacular verse that was appeared in Andalusia. Other group believes in that free verse is originated from stanza- although history of arising poetic stanza is also not clear-; since in both stanza and free verse, poet has option to reduce and add free verses based on the given concept. Third category of critiques believes in that Immigrant Poets have heralded transformation in Arabic verse in terms of meaning, rhyme, and prosodic meters. Anyway, all the efforts are led to well-known verse called “Al- Kolera (Cholera)” versified by the late Dr. Nazik (Sadegh) Al-Malaika (1923-2007), Iraqi contemporary female poet and or the Ode of “Hal Kana Hobban (Was there any love?)” by other Iraqi poet called Badr Shakir Al Sayyab(1926-1964), and these two poets are purposed as pioneers of Arabic free verse. Some peoples consider Nazik Al- Malaika as the first pioneer while the other ones have believed in Badr as the primary poet of Arabic free verse. One may refer to the following cases as the foremost characteristics of Arabic free verse: Poet’s ability in versifying short and long hemistiches, freedom of imagination, unified and matched structure, and deserving for narration of Arabic works
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