Dialect verse is poetry written in a regional, social, or national dialect rather than standard literary language. It may use local vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and pronunciation to capture how people actually speak in a particular place or community. Writers often use it to create voice, preserve local color, or show a speaker's background and identity.
It is verse which employs national or regional dialects e.g. Robert Burns (Scottish), William Barnes (Dorset), Tennyson (Lincolnshire - see Northern Farmer) or my own poems (Norfolk - see New Norfolk Anals).
Example
"I mind the lane afore the rain,
The hawthorn leanin' white;
We'd laugh an' talk till supper-time
An' home by lantern light."