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blank verse

noun as in iambic pentameter

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The only gangster picture ever done in blank verse, by Abraham Polonsky.

Farther on he laughs at the 'prophetical spirits' of those 'who set the end of scholarism in an English blank-verse.'

Few poets have approached him in the successful writing of blank verse, which has a delightful cadence as well as calm strength.

I invented no new incident; I simply wrote the story as Ann had told it to me, in the best blank verse I was able to compose.

Dekkers theory of blank verse, in especial, was not a severe one.

Blank verse he thinks too slow in movement, and too much opposed in character.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to blank verse, such as: dactylic hexameter, iamb, and iambus.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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