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blank verse

[blangk vurs] / ˈblæŋk ˈvɜrs /
NOUN
iambic pentameter
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"This is the biggest mountain because I was always worried about the iambic pentameter, about blank verse, and not being trained as an actor," he says.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2024

The theater piece is written in deliberately Bard-like blank verse and alludes to Shakespearean plots.

From Seattle Times Apr. 20, 2022

Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2022

This handsome RKO film, directed by John Ford and adapted from Maxwell Anderson’s blank verse drama, hit the box office like a dud cannon ball.

From New York Times Sep. 14, 2018

The play was demanding because the dialogue was in blank verse.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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