blank verse
Example Sentences
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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
At its best, whether in blank verse or in a 39-line sestina, his work was lyrical and bracing.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2018
The play was demanding because the dialogue was in blank verse.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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