blank verse
Noun
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unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Marlowe anticipated Whitman's barbaric yawp by setting up a national PA system of blank verse – a rising iambic system of sound to suit the new success story.
Blank verse really deserving the name I believe to be impossible except to one or two eminent writers in a generation.
The practice of reading aloud did do something towards attuning my ear. The subtle cadences of Elizabethan blank verse taught me more than the substantial study of English prosody could do at that time.
Ainger, pp. 224–25 The next opera, Princess Ida (1884, the duo's only three-act, blank verse work), had a noticeably shorter run than its four predecessors, although Sullivan's score was praised.