blank verse
Example Sentences
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I knew John Milton wrote those lines of blank verse I loved.
From New York Times
The theater piece is written in deliberately Bard-like blank verse and alludes to Shakespearean plots.
From Seattle Times
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
They speak, in a strange blank verse, of the flesh and blood they don’t actually have, the “lively excretions of a pair of corpses in stultified congress.”
From New York Times
Those who went for blank verse seemed to think that anything, however banal,
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
