0 a type of poetry that does not rhyme, usually with ten syllables in each line --
1 a style of writing poems without using rhyme (= words that end with the same sound) --
He initiated the use of blank verse in his poems.
Her demeanour was as lofty as any and her speech almost rose into blank verse at times; and he began to think that she had missed her vocation in life.
All these examples are cast in conventional poetic meters - blank verse, amphibrachic trimeter, iambic pentameter - which are being used as the formal vehicle for a protracted exposition.
Pushkin's drama consists of 25 scenes, written predominantly in blank verse.
Shakespeares soliloquies are written in blank verse of unparalleled variety, invention and rhythmic flexibility, suggestive of the rapidly changing moods of their speakers.
Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse, and their overreaching protagonists.
Milton used the flexibility of blank verse, its capacity to support syntactic complexity, to the utmost, in passages such as these::....
Shakespeare's earliest plays tended to be adaptations of other playwright's works and employed blank verse and little variation in rhythm.
