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blank verse

[blangk vurs] / ˈblæŋk ˈvɜrs /
NOUN
iambic pentameter
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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 • Jun. 7, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2022

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2022

Only Saul Williams, as the fairy-king Oberon, seems to know his way around Shakespeare’s blank verse.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2018

The play was demanding because the dialogue was in blank verse.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow