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blank verse

noun

Definitions

  1. A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme…

    A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.

    • Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.
    • 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.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blank verse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA