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Definition of Blank verse
1. Noun. Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter).
Definition of Blank verse
1. Noun. A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blank Verse
Literary usage of Blank verse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"blank verse About a third of Twelfth Night is in blank verse — the unrhymed,
iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter, introduced into ..."
2. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"To-day, when blank verse is the recognized medium for long poems, the one in
which many of the pieces we like best are written, we have difficulty in ..."
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