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A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme

Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.

unrhyming iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse, the usual rhythm of English dramatic and epic poetry from its introduction by Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, in his translation of Books II and IV of Virgil's Certain Books of Virgil's AEneis Shakespeare's Hamlet II 2 339: "The Lady shall say her minde freely; or the blanke Verse shall halt for't " Poems such as John Milton's Paradise Lost, Robert Browning's dramatic monologues, and Wallace Steven's "Sunday Morning" use blank verse
Blank verse is a very flexible English verse form which can attain rhetorical grandeur whilst echoing the natural rhythms of human speech It was used first by Henry Howard in c 1540, soon becoming the standard metre for dramatic poetry It is used widely for narrative and meditative poems Much of the finest verse in English - by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and others - has been written in blank verse It should not be confused with free verse, which has no regular metre C
unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables. Verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter. poetry that has a fixed rhythm but does not rhyme free verse. Unrhymed verse, specifically unrhymed iambic pentameter, the preeminent dramatic and narrative verse form in English. It is also the standard form for dramatic verse in Italian and German. Adapted from Greek and Latin sources, it was introduced in Italy, then in England, where in the 16th century William Shakespeare transformed blank verse into a vehicle for the greatest English dramatic poetry, and its potential for grandeur was confirmed with John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- poetry written without rhymes, but with a set metrical pattern, usually iambic pentameter
(also called unrhymed iambic pentameter) Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents Blank verse has been called the most "natural" verse form for dramatic works, since it supposedly is the verse form most close to natural rhythms of English speech, and it has been the primary verse form of English drama and narrative poetry since the mid-Sixteenth Century Such verse is blank in rhyme only; it usually has a definite meter (Variations in this meter may appear occasionally) The Earl of Surrey first used the term blank verse in his 1540 translation of The Aeneid of Virgil As an example, in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus' speech to Hippolyta appears in blank verse
unrhymed verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter verse
This is unrhymed, usually iambic, pentameter For examples, check out the BlankVerse page on Tangerine! C
Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse
Unrhymed verse often used in English epic and dramatic poetry Its meter is iambic pentameter Compare heroic couplet
the verse form most like everyday human speech, blank verse consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter Many of Shakespeare's plays are in blank verse Close Window
Unrhyming iambic pentameter
poetry which doesn't rhyme, usually written in iambic pentameter
Any unrhyming verse (hence the name "blank") Blank verse usually consists of lines of iambic pentameter Of all the English verse forms, it is the closest to the natural rhythms of English speech (Most of Shakespeare's plays are in blank verse)
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