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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

What we mean is that you continue to send us your quaterns, sonnets and blank verse just in case we change our minds.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019

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

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow