blank verse
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's."
- "[T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey."
- "I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakespearean beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened, and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power."
- "Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet."