blank verse in English
I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme about the city's history.
Use "blank verse" in a sentence
1. 17 In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter.
2. Bustling Mind, Blank Verse Greetings fellow poetry lovers! Poetry is my bread and butter, reading, writing, performing, watching
3. 20 The language and meter used by Aeschylus in his plays was the forerunner of blank verse, or unrhymed iambic pentameter.
4. 11 Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call, and what Milton would have called, blank verse.
5. 23 The primary metrical pattern in Frost is the primary metrical pattern in English poetry, which is to say blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter.
6. 19 Up to this point in literary history, only verse written for the theater had been written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, in blank verse.
7. The Horatian Alcaics of "Luck," in which the poet confronts the good fortunes of others,complements the mildly brooding blank verse of "Pacific Rim," in which the poet hints at the luckless victims of 20th century brutality
8. (adverb) Tennyson was already writing Copiously - "an epic of 6000 lines" at twelve, a drama in blank verse at fourteen, and so on: these exercises have, very properly, not been printed, but the poet said of them at the close of his life, "It seems to me, I …