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Poetry written in regular metre but without rhyme
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common
Blank_verse
Form of literary device
female beauty. Also known as “un-rhymed iambic pentameter", blank verse is an unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry, it has a consistent
Poetic_device
Single metrical line in a poetic composition
Floor. —Emily Dickinson Blank verse is poetry written in regular, metrical, but unrhymed, lines, almost always
Verse_(poetry)
Literary form
become known as 'blank verse' was introduced. Blank verse refers to verse which does not rhyme. Since Gorboduc not only used blank verse, which would have
Verse drama and dramatic verse
Verse_drama_and_dramatic_verse
Poetic structure popularized by John Milton
The Miltonic verse (also Miltonic epic or Miltonic blank verse) was a highly influential poetic style and structure popularized by John Milton. Although
John_Milton's_poetic_style
Bengali poet and dramatist (1825–1873)
Sanskrit. He pioneered the Bengali sonnet and introduced European-style blank verse into Bengali poetry, revolutionizing its metrical structure. Michael
Michael_Madhusudan_Dutt
1667 epic poem by John Milton
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the
Paradise_Lost
schemes, with some opting for intermediary variants such as free verse and blank verse. The earliest known translation of Odysseus' travels is Livius Andronicus'
Translations_of_the_Odyssey
English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and
John_Milton
Impact of English playwright and poet
decasyllabic rule he developed the blank verse to perfection and introduced a new style. "Shakespeare's blank verse is one of the most important of all
Influence of William Shakespeare
Influence_of_William_Shakespeare
Circa 1614 English translation
1611, written in rhyming fourteeners. For his Odyssey, he changed the blank verse and dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric Greek to rhyming couplets
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
Odyssey_(George_Chapman_translation)
Poetic style
for novelty, the imitation of Whitman, the study of Jacobean dramatic blank verse, and the awareness of what French poets had already done to the alexandrine
Free_verse
1730 series of poems by James Thomson
Barnet. There he was able to begin Winter, the first of his four Seasons. Blank verse had been considered more of an interesting toy than anything useful to
The_Seasons_(Thomson)
published in 1921. Bridges begins with a detailed empirical analysis of the blank verse of Paradise Lost, and then examines the changes in Milton's practice
Milton's_Prosody
Poem by William Cowper
The Task: A Poem, in Six Books is a poem in blank verse by William Cowper published in 1785, usually seen as his supreme achievement. Its six books are
The_Task_(poem)
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted
William_Shakespeare
Lengthy poem dealing with supernatural forces
and rhyme royal, though in the 16th century the Spenserian stanza and blank verse were also introduced. The French alexandrine is currently the heroic
Epic_poetry
1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler
in blank verse?' 'Dana', said Kantor with a wry smile, 'I can't afford to write in blank verse, because nobody buys anything written in blank verse. But
The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives
English playwright and poet (1564–1593)
Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by
Christopher_Marlowe
Metric line consisting of five iambic feet
models. It is used in several major English poetic forms, including blank verse, the heroic couplet, and some of the traditionally rhymed stanza forms
Iambic_pentameter
his 19. Canto of Inferno hath thus, as I will render it you in English blank Verse. 'Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause / Not thy Conversion, but
List of English translations of the Divine Comedy
List_of_English_translations_of_the_Divine_Comedy
Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in 1833 when Tennyson was 24 and published in 1842 in his well-received
Ulysses_(poem)
Prelude consist of verse paragraphs. Verse paragraphs are frequently used in blank verse and in free verse. Leverkuhn, A. "What Is a Verse Paragraph?". LanguageHumanities
Verse_paragraph
2005). Southey, Robert (ed.). The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper – via Project Gutenberg.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric
English_translations_of_Homer
1853 narrative poem by Matthew Arnold
lectures On Translating Homer (1861). The poem consists of 892 lines of blank verse. Rustum, the mightiest chieftain of the Persians, in the course of his
Sohrab_and_Rustum
Edwin The Fall of Nineveh 1828–1868 blank verse Atherstone, Edwin Israel in Egypt 1861 20,000 c. 20,000 blank verse Auden, W.H. The Age of Anxiety 1944–46
List_of_long_poems_in_English
English poet and writer (1674–1718)
verse drama largely in blank verse Tamerlane (1701), a verse drama largely in blank verse The Biter (1704), a comedy in prose Ulysses (1705), a verse
Nicholas_Rowe_(writer)
French play by Edmond Rostand
Mahon (2004) - blank verse[citation needed] Carol Clark (2006) - "a loose five beat line..." in blank verse Brian Vinero (2021) - rhymed verse Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano_de_Bergerac_(play)
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating
Metre_(poetry)
British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)
after he died of a stroke at the age of 22. Tennyson also wrote notable blank verse, including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". During his
Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson
1827 poem by Robert Pollok
The Course of Time is a ten-book poem in blank verse, first published in 1827. It was the last published and most famous work of Scottish poet Robert
The_Course_of_Time
Son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology
of Acis by Bryan Procter, writing under the name of Barry Cornwall. A blank verse narrative with lyric episodes, it celebrates the musicianship of Polyphemus
Polyphemus
Epic poem attributed to Homer
is a major poetic work in its own right. William Cowper's Miltonic, blank verse 1791 edition is highly regarded for its greater fidelity to the Greek
Iliad
Sicilian natural fountain that features in mythology and literature
Alexander Pope's satire The Dunciad (Bk 2, l. 342) and William Wordsworth's blank verse poem The Prelude (Bk X, l. 1033). These writers would have known the
Fountain_of_Arethusa
Elizabethan era comedy play
that playwright's dramatic canon – it is the only play Lyly wrote in blank verse rather than prose – has presented scholars and critics with a range of
The_Woman_in_the_Moon
Poem by Virgil
blank verse Arthur Way (London, 1912) quantitative verse couplets J. W. Mackail (New York, 1934) prose C. Day-Lewis (London, 1940) quantitative verse
Georgics
First part of the ode; structural division of a poem
composed line-by-line non-stanzaically, such as Greek epic poems or English blank verse, to which the term stichic applies. In its original Greek setting, "strophe
Strophe
Autobiographical poem by William Wordsworth
Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction
The_Prelude
Plays of the English playwright
even stronger. He and many dramatists of this period used the form of blank verse extensively in character dialogue, thus heightening poetic effects. To
Shakespeare's_plays
Epic poem by Sri Aurobindo
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in blank verse by Sri Aurobindo. Consisting of nearly 24,000 lines, it is based on the legend of Savitri
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri:_A_Legend_and_a_Symbol
Poem by Edwin Atherstone
The Fall of Nineveh is a long poem in blank verse by Edwin Atherstone. It consists of thirty books preceded by a Prelude. The poem was written over many
The_Fall_of_Nineveh
Poem by John Milton
it shares similar theological themes; indeed, its title, its use of blank verse, and its progression through Christian history recall the earlier work
Paradise_Regained
Italian blank verse poetry
sciolti, lit. 'loose verse') refers to poetry written in hendecasyllables and lacking rhyme. It is very similar to blank verse in English poetry, and
Verso_sciolto
Poetry cycle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
gradual corruption and disintegration of Arthur's realm. Written in blank verse while Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and dedicated
Idylls_of_the_King
Scottish poet (1700–1748)
written largely in blank verse, starring the reigning tragedian of the time, James Quin Alfred, A Masque (1740), written largely in blank verse with some rhyming
James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
James_Thomson_(poet,_born_1700)
Book series by Ian Doescher
Skywalker Saga. The plays are written as Elizabethan tragedies, mixing blank verse poetry and stage scripts with Early Modern English stock characters and
William Shakespeare's Star Wars
William_Shakespeare's_Star_Wars
1728 blank-verse poem by James Ralph
Night, a Poem in Four Books is a 1728 blank verse poem by the British writer James Ralph. Issued in quarto by the London printer J. Roberts, it comprises
Night_(Ralph_poem)
2022 play by Mike Bartlett
The 47th is a 2022 play in blank verse by Mike Bartlett that tells an imagined future history regarding who will become the 47th president of the United
The_47th
British author and translator
August 1844) was a British author and translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante. Henry Francis Cary was born
Henry_Francis_Cary
English clergyman, translator and poet
later be the MP for Leicester from 1774 to 1784. The translation is in blank verse, with the intention of to conveying the sense of Virgil line for line
Robert_Andrews_(translator)
Play by Christopher Marlowe
obedience and conformity. The play is in blank verse and prose in thirteen scenes (1604) or twenty scenes (1616). Blank verse is largely reserved for the main
Doctor_Faustus_(play)
Essay by John Dryden
or modern"); and (3) whether plays in rhyme are an improvement upon blank verse drama—a proposition that Neander, despite having defended the Elizabethans
Essay_of_Dramatick_Poesie
Class of poetic verse
Spenser that was re-embraced as English heroic verse. Using this line, Surrey also introduced blank verse into English, previous instances being rimed.
Heroic_verse
1977 film by Chris Boger
Barry Lyndon, and a script of plummy antitheses apparently written in blank verse, it is hard to know whether Cruel Passion really had pretensions entirely
Cruel_Passion
2022 play by Abigail Thorn
Henry IV, Part 1 and with its dialogue largely in Shakespearean English blank verse, the play begins with the Battle of Holmedon Hill. Hotspur, a hypermasculine
The_Prince_(play)
1587/88 play by Christopher Marlowe
a stock of themes and, especially, in demonstrating the potential of blank verse in drama, is still acknowledged. Whereas the real Timur was of Turkic-Mongolian
Tamburlaine
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
whose writing explored the female condition, has a dramatic monologue in blank verse titled "Circe" in her volume Portraits (1870). There the sorceress anticipates
Circe
Poem by Orson F. Whitney
survival from illness to write this book Canto One—As From a Dream Form: Blank verse Content: The "author's spiritual awakening" Canto Two—The Soul of Song
Elias:_An_Epic_of_the_Ages
Literature written in the English language
(1592). Gorboduc is notable especially as the first verse drama in English to employ blank verse, and for the way it developed elements, from the earlier
English_literature
English essayist, poet, and antiquarian (1775–1834)
Potato Peel Pie Society. Blank Verse, poems, 1798 A Tale of Rosamund Gray, and Old Blind Margaret, 1798 John Woodvil, verse drama, 1802 Tales from Shakespeare
Charles_Lamb
1590 poem by George Peele
Accession Day tilt of 1590. The prior thirteen parts of Polyhymnia are each blank verse descriptions of pairs of contestants with vague impressions of their
A_Farewell_to_Arms_(poem)
Victorian-era theatrical partnership
write humorous verse, stories and plays, including the comic operas Our Island Home (1870) and A Sensation Novel (1871), and the blank verse comedies The
Gilbert_and_Sullivan
The Sunken Bell (German: Die versunkene Glocke) is a poetic play in blank verse by Gerhart Hauptmann (2. December 1896 in Berlin). It is a fairy drama
The_Sunken_Bell
1677 tragedy by John Dryden
play. It is dedicated to the Earl of Danby. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It
All_for_Love_(play)
1851 novel by Herman Melville
in Ahab's quarterdeck monologue, to the point that it can be set as blank verse. Set over a metrical pattern, the rhythms are "evenly controlled—too
Moby-Dick
Polyglot, Avadhani and an author
(dvisandhānākavya) Antaḥkāntiḥ, a novel in blank verse, on the last days of Vivekananda Saugandhikā, a collection of sonnets in blank verse Citraculikā, an example of
Shatavadhani_Ganesh
Farce by W. S. Gilbert in blank verse
The Princess is a blank verse farcical play, in five scenes with music, by W. S. Gilbert which adapts and parodies Alfred, Lord Tennyson's humorous 1847
The_Princess_(Gilbert_play)
2014 play by Mike Bartlett
King Charles III is a 2014 play in blank verse by Mike Bartlett that premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London. The play is a future history account
King_Charles_III_(play)
American journalist (1904–1977)
in blank verse?' 'Dana', said Kantor with a wry smile, 'I can't afford to write in blank verse, because nobody buys anything written in blank verse. But
MacKinlay_Kantor
Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)
myth from the Metamorphoses (1978) Ovid's Metamorphoses (Translation in Blank Verse), by Brookes More (1978) Ovid's Metamorphoses in European Culture (Commentary)
Ovid
1793 poem by Charlotte Smith
The Emigrants is a narrative blank verse poem by Charlotte Smith first published in 1793. When she wrote The Emigrants, Smith was a successful poet and
The_Emigrants_(poem)
English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1773–1834)
below. Harper considered that the eight poems represented a form of blank verse that is "...more fluent and easy than Milton's, or any that had been
Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
1639 English play
language and character" (Havelock Ellis), with "some of Ford's sweetest blank verse and some excellently subtle bits of characterization" (Stuart Pratt Sherman)
The_Lady's_Trial
1884 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan opera in three acts and the only one with dialogue in blank verse. Though its original run was modestly profitable, by Savoy opera standards
Princess_Ida
Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems. It is a blank-verse tale recounting an idealistic poet’s search for perfect love and knowledge
Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
Alastor,_or_The_Spirit_of_Solitude
MacCarthy exhibiting a more formal "bardolotry" writes: All the forms of verse have been preserved; while the closeness of the translation may be inferred
List of Calderón's plays in English translation
List_of_Calderón's_plays_in_English_translation
American fiction writer (born 1977)
parodic retellings of George Lucas's Star Wars films (1977–2005) in blank verse and 16th-century style of William Shakespeare. Doescher has a B.A. in
Ian_Doescher
Form of poetry
English period is considered stichic. Most English poetry written in blank verse, such as the epic Paradise Lost by John Milton, is stichic. A more contemporary
Stichic
Rhetorical figure which a single phrase is said in two parts by different characters
three sentences spoken by two persons. But it is only one single line in blank verse: Peace then. No words. I'll rather kill myself. "The device originated
Antilabe
Arlington Robinson that was first published in 1924. The poem is written in blank verse. Its hero is the unfulfilled musician Fernando Nash. It was awarded the
The_Man_Who_Died_Twice_(poem)
1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
Statesman, stating that "Eliot has shown that he can at moments write real blank verse; but that is all"; The Guardian published a review calling it "waste
The_Waste_Land
1936 film
Vanzetti trial and execution in 1928. The script retains elements of the blank verse poetic meter on which Anderson based his 1935 Winterset Broadway theater
Winterset_(film)
American playwright and novelist (1865–1925)
about Joan of Arc with Davenport in the starring role. Mathews wrote a blank verse drama called A Soldier of France that was based in historical research
Frances_Aymar_Mathews
Poem by Christopher Smart
with Miltonic poetic form, especially with the reliance on Miltonic blank verse. In 1726, Peter Smart, Christopher Smart's father, purchased Hall-Place
The_Hop-Garden
1825 play by Alexander Pushkin
1598 to 1605. It consists of 25 scenes and is written predominantly in blank verse. Modest Mussorgsky's opera, Boris Godunov (1874), is based on this play
Boris_Godunov_(play)
childhood to adulthood. It is a type of coming-of-age story. biography blank verse Verse written in iambic pentameter without rhyme. boulevard theatre bourgeois
Glossary_of_literary_terms
English literature from 1558 to 1603
with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the
Elizabethan_literature
English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
"Advertisement" to the original edition of 1785: ...a lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the author, and gave him the SOFA
William_Cowper
Play written by William Butler Yeats
The Countess Cathleen is a verse drama by William Butler Yeats in blank verse (with some lyrics). It was dedicated to Maud Gonne, the object of his affections
The_Countess_Cathleen
American writer, game designer, and poet
Ford composed poems, often improvised, in both complicated forms and blank verse; he also wrote pastiches and parodies of many other authors and styles
John_M._Ford
English writer (1882–1956)
of a Telephone Directory con amore as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others." Milne is most famous for his two Pooh
A._A._Milne
1930 Broadway three-act play written in blank verse by Maxwell Anderson
Elizabeth the Queen was a 1930 Broadway three-act play written in blank verse by Maxwell Anderson, produced by the Theatre Guild, directed by Philip Moeller
Elizabeth_the_Queen_(play)
English poet (1683–1765)
remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was
Edward_Young
Character in Romeo and Juliet
spoken by a Chorus. Most of Romeo and Juliet is, however, written in blank verse and much of it in strict iambic pentameter, with less rhythmic variation
Friar_Laurence
1939 Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson
Key Largo was a 1939 Broadway play written in blank verse by Maxwell Anderson that became the basis for the 1948 film by the same name. The play ran for
Key_Largo_(play)
Poetic metre of five feet
in iambic pentameter. It is also the meter used by Shakespeare in his blank-verse tragedies. "Pentameter | Description & Examples | Britannica". www.britannica
Pentameter
Poetic form, traditionally fourteen specifically rhymed lines
room more of the combined effect of rhyme and blank verse, than can be done by any other kind of verse I know of". In that its compression could be adapted
Sonnet
Style of the English poet and playwright
poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter with clever use of puns and imagery. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed
Shakespeare's_writing_style
Fantasy tale by James Thurber
almost continuous internal meter, with occasional hidden rhymes — akin to blank verse, but with no line breaks to advertise the structure. Other fantasy books
The_13_Clocks
Latin source text (if known) is noted here. Notes — "Prose" or the form of verse is always listed first, so that sorting on this column groups formally similar
List of English translations of De rerum natura
List_of_English_translations_of_De_rerum_natura
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