blank verse

Example Sentences

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"This is the biggest mountain because I was always worried about the iambic pentameter, about blank verse, and not being trained as an actor," he says.

From BBC

I knew John Milton wrote those lines of blank verse I loved.

From New York Times

The theater piece is written in deliberately Bard-like blank verse and alludes to Shakespearean plots.

From Seattle Times

Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.

From Los Angeles Times

They speak, in a strange blank verse, of the flesh and blood they don’t actually have, the “lively excretions of a pair of corpses in stultified congress.”

From New York Times