blank verse
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
blank 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[edit]
a poetic form with regular meter
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