Definition of blank verse in English:

noun

• Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameters.

  More example sentences

  • ‘I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme about the city's history.’
  • ‘He tabulated the total number of lines of blank verse, rhymed verse, and prose in each play, along with short and long lines, and lines with redundant syllables.’
  • ‘She's written the screenplay in rhyming blank verse, a daring choice that's bound to offend critics hooked on ‘realism.’’
  • ‘I wrote poems, sonnets in blank verse and long, narrative poems about people I knew, descriptive pieces.’
  • ‘And so we study Shakespeare for the plot, and not for the incredible way in which he mastered writing and managed to write his plays in blank verse?’