Blank Verse
Blank Verse
Type: noun
Pronunciation: /blaynk-vers/
What does Blank Verse mean? Poetry that does not rhyme. Unrhyming iambic pentameter.
Blank Verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.. Blank Verses verses are nonrhyming.
Blank Verse Synonyms: Heroic Verse, Free Verse
Example of a Blank Verse:
From William Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
[To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.]
(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
Example sentence: “I was reading William Shakespeare’s blank verse.”