blank verse
English
editNoun
editblank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)
- (poetry) A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
- Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakesperian beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.
Translations
edita poetic form with regular meter
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