blank verse en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.
2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:[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.
1592, Robert Greene, Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance, London: imprinted for William Wright, folio F¹v: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.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 288:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blank verses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (16)
cy mesur diodl (a poetic form with regular meter) · fr vers blanc (a poetic form with regular meter) · la versus solutus (a poetic form with regular meter) · ru белый стих (a poetic form with regular meter) · tl ditugmang taludturan (a poetic form with regular meter) · it verso sciolto (a poetic form with regular meter) · pt verso branco (a poetic form with regular meter) · pt verso solto (a poetic form with regular meter) · es verso blanco (a poetic form with regular meter) · pl wiersz biały (a poetic form with regular meter) · uk білий вірш (a poetic form with regular meter) · ro vers alb (a poetic form with regular meter) · he חָרוּז לָבָן (a poetic form with regular meter) · ca vers blanc (a poetic form with regular meter) · de Blankvers (a poetic form with regular meter) · cmn 無韻詩 /无韵诗 (a poetic form with regular meter)