Blank verse

/blˈaŋk vˈɜːs/

/blˈæŋk vˈɜːs/

[noun]

Blank verse

[NOUN]

a verse without rhyme, especially one with ten syllables and five stresses, known as an iambic pentameter

Examples

1. Echoing, I think, Milton's Satan, the blank verse suddenly becomes a kind of heroic medium of the will.

2. Not like Tennyson's Ulysses in sonorous blank verse, but rather, as I think you could hear readily enough, in the Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse form of "The Seafarer."

3. Of course, it's with no small help from Milton's incredibly elastic blank verse here that the headlong rush of Mulciber's fall has been drawn to a provisional stop.

4. Think of the feeling that Wordsworth's blank verse just kind of disappears into prose.