Definition of blank verse Blank verse
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What does blank verse mean?
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| blank verse - unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
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Blank verse means poetry that does not use rhyme.
Many critics judge blank verse to be better than rhyme for serious subjects, and many poets have used blank verse for their most important works. Shakespeare used rhyme in his early plays, but in his more mature works like "Hamlet" he preferred blank verse. John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" in blank verse, and Wordsworth used it for "The Prelude" and "The Excursion". John Keats used rhyme in his "Endymion", his first try at a major poem; for his second attempt, "Hyperion", he switched to blank verse.
Many 20th century poets gave up both rhyme and the strict meter of blank verse to write free verse.
