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blank verse

[ blangk vurs ]

noun

  1. unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.


blank verse

noun

  1. prosody unrhymed verse, esp in iambic pentameters
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blank verse

  1. 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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of blank verse1

First recorded in 1580–90
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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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