Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Unrhymed verse having a regular meter, usually of iambic pentameter.
Wiktionary
- n. A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. See under Verse.
- n. poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
Examples
“One of the Tales in this collection, The Confidant, was actually turned into a little drama in blank verse by Charles Lamb, under the changed title of The Wife's Trial: or the Intruding Widow.”
“I wrote humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas.”
“His Indian drama "Tecumseh," written in blank verse in lines imbued with the splendour of the early days, will always be a work of importance to Canadians.”
“No reader, alert to the subtle and haunting music of rarefied blank verse (and unless it be rarefied it should not be put forward as poetry), could possibly accept these lines as expressionally poetical.”
“Her most ambitious effort was a blank verse poem, Traits of the Aborigines of America”
“Notable among his poetic endeavors in his versions in blank verse of Tasso's "Aminta".”
“It may prove that what seem to us the regrettable accidents of Browning's genius are no malfortunate flaws, but as germane thereto as his Herculean ruggednesses are to Shakspere, as the laboured inversions of his blank verse are to Milton, as his austere concision is to Dante.”
“His earlier comedies (1508-1509) are written in prose, his later (1520-1531) in verso sdrucciolo, blank verse ending in a dactyl, intended to reproduce the trimeter iambic of the Latin comedians.”
Lists
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
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Take five
Two-word phrases composed of five-letter words. There are a couple with three words (great white shark), but I stuck those on Triads 3.
belly laugh, bench press, bette davis, black angus, blank check, booby hatch, brain coral, bronx cheer, brown dwarf, buddy holly, burnt umber, cabin fever and 195 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Prosody
Your terms and additions are welcome.
headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 203 more...
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Verses
inverse, reverse, universe, obverse, adverse, averse, converse, bouleversement, diverse, overseas, oversee, oversew and 20 more...
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Poetry Terms
April is National Poetry Month. Add your favorite poetry terms to this new list!
alliteration, anapest, alexandrine, caesura, assonance, ballad, blank verse, iamb, conceit, couplet, consonance, dactyl and 30 more...
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Construction
Words around the construction of words
morpheme, riming, phoneme, assonance, euphony, alliteration, rhyme, logos, etymology, similitude, language, syntactic and 87 more...
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APLIT Poetry Word List
enjambment, epigram, antithesis, caesura, consonance, apostrophe, assonance, conceit, litotes, heroic couplet, scansion, ballad and 8 more...
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Dictionary
dilettante, frostjack, perfunctory, impresario, paparazzi, pastiche, lollipop, Cymru, nub, bivouac, knapsack, hoodlum and 80 more...
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poetic notions
villanelle, sestina, acrostic, sonnet, corona of sonnets, wreath of sonnets, ode, octave, quatrain, couplet, tercet, terza rima and 41 more...
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glossary of poetry terms
terms useful for understanindg the poetry!
Caesura, blank verse, consonance, enjambment, iambic pentameter, litotes, onomatopoeia, rhyme, scansion, sonnet, verse, apostrophe and 3 more...
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Poetry to my Ears
Verse-related words.
Tweets
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