blank verses
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter—lines of ten syllables with alternating unstressed and stressed beats.
It's the meter of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's *Paradise Lost*, flexible enough for dramatic speech while maintaining rhythmic structure.
The plural refers to lines or passages in this form: He wrote several blank verses before switching to free verse.
- unrhymedLacking end-sound correspondence
- iambicVerse rhythm type
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- meterDevice that measures usage
- lineContinuous mark or queue
ten syllables · enjambment · metrical · foot · unstressed syllable · Marlowe · heroics · epic poetry · dramatic monologue · caesura · poetic form · Surrey · Shakespearean drama · soliloquy · scansion · line breaks · word · prosody
blank versesrhymed verse
Poetry with matching line-endings
couplets · sonnets · limericks · villanelles · quatrains
blank versesfree verse
Poetry without fixed structure
prose poetry · prose · villanelles · sestinas · sonnets
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