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blank verse
[ blangk vurs ]
noun
- unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
blank verse
noun
- prosody unrhymed verse, esp in iambic pentameters
blank verse
- Verse written in iambic pentameter , without rhyme . Many of the speeches in the plays of William Shakespeare are written in blank verse; this example is from Macbeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Word History and Origins
Origin of blank verse1
Example Sentences
The only gangster picture ever done in blank verse, by Abraham Polonsky.
Farther on he laughs at the 'prophetical spirits' of those 'who set the end of scholarism in an English blank-verse.'
Few poets have approached him in the successful writing of blank verse, which has a delightful cadence as well as calm strength.
I invented no new incident; I simply wrote the story as Ann had told it to me, in the best blank verse I was able to compose.
Dekkers theory of blank verse, in especial, was not a severe one.
Blank verse he thinks too slow in movement, and too much opposed in character.
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