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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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Meaning of "blank verse" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLANK VERSE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLANK VERSE

noun
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blank verse is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLANK VERSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

blank verse

Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century" and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three-quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse." The first documented use of blank verse in the English language was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his translation of the Æneid. He was possibly inspired by the Latin original, as classical Latin verse did not use rhyme; or he may have been inspired by the Italian verse form of versi sciolti, which also contained no rhyme. The play Arden of Faversham is a notable example of end-stopped blank verse. The 1561 play Gorboduc by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville was the first English play to use blank verse. Christopher Marlowe was the first English author to make full use of the potential of blank verse. The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse.

Definition of blank verse in the English dictionary

The definition of blank verse in the dictionary is unrhymed verse, esp in iambic pentameters.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLANK VERSE

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blanketweed
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WORDS THAT END LIKE BLANK VERSE

adverse
averse
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in reverse
inverse
masters of the universe
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Twitterverse
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Synonyms and antonyms of blank verse in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «blank verse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLANK VERSE

Find out the translation of blank verse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blank verse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blank verse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无韵诗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

verso blanco
570 millions of speakers

English

blank verse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रिक्त कविता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الآية فارغة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

белый стих
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verso em branco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খালি শ্লোক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vers blancs
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

ayat kosong
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blankvers
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無韻詩
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빈 절
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kosong ayat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thơ không vần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெற்று வசனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रिक्त श्लोक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kafiyesiz şiir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

versi sciolti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

biały wiersz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

білий вірш
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

verset gol
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανομοιοκαταληξία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leë vers
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blankvers
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blankvers
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blank verse

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLANK VERSE»

The term «blank verse» is regularly used and occupies the 81.315 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blank verse

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Anna Quindlen
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLANK VERSE»

Discover the use of blank verse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blank verse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use
With its compact but inclusive survey of more than four centuries of poetry, Blank Verse is filled with practical advice for poets of our own day who may wish to attempt the form or enhance their mastery of it.
Robert Burns Shaw, 2007
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The Iliad of Homer: translated into English blank verse, ...
translated into English blank verse, with notes Homer, William Cowper. BOOK VIII . Argument. Juve ealls a eouneil, iu whieh he forbids all interferenee of the Gods between the Greeks and Trojans. He repairs to Idn, where, having eonsulted ...
Homer, William Cowper, 1820
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"Beowulf" in Blank Verse
This thesis also includes a critical introduction exploring how the monsters in the poem horrify the audience, a brief note about the chosen mode of translation, a listing of the names of both places and people that appear in the work, a ...
Robert Andrew Swart, 2007
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Blank Verse
Essay. Tod Thilleman's BLANK VERSE is a Polemic addressing contemporary expressionist/activist writing.
Tod Thilleman, 2000
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The Iliad of Homer Rendered Into English Blank Verse
easy flow and majestic simplicity of the grand old Poet, it can only be in the Heroic blank verse." I have seen isolated passages admirably rendered in other metres ; and there are many instances in which a translation line for line and couplet ...
Homer, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby (Earl of), Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Earl of Derby, 1871
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The Iliad, rendered into Engl. blank verse, by Edward earl ...
Homerus. (p - / THE ILIAD OF HOMEE RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE. BY.
Homerus, 1865
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The English Dramatic Blank-verse Before Marlowe ...
Tie English dramatic blank-verse before Marlowe. ''" %- i. According to Collier1 verses of ten syllables without rhyme are first to be found in Euglish literature in Lord Surrey's translation of parts of the Aeneis. The author himself says on the title- ...
Max Wagner, 1881
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Blank Verse Pastels
Clinton Scollard. In turn had faded, and the yellowed year Grew miserly of its fast- slipping gold. Then the mad master of the Hounds of Storm Let slip from leash his pack, and though they mouthed Insistent their loud menace in her ears, Hope ...
Clinton Scollard, 1907
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The Æneid of Virgil, books i.-vi., tr. into Engl. blank ...
Publius Vergilius Maro. true and worthy vehicle of the epic muse. Its freedom, its flexibility, the variety of pauses and modulations of rhythm which it admits of, mark it as the true counterpart of the classical hexameter. It adapts itself to every ...
Publius Vergilius Maro, 1871
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The Æneid of Virgil, books vii.-xii., tr. into Engl. blank ...
Publius Vergilius Maro. LATELY PUBLISHED. THE ODYSSEY AND ILIAD OF HOMER. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE IN THE SPENSERIAN STANZA. By P. S. WORSLEY and Professor CONINGTON. Four vols, crown 8vo, 39s.
Publius Vergilius Maro, 1872

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLANK VERSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blank verse is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore brings controversial theatre to Vancouver
For the actors, the work is challenging and exciting, stretching them to perform with blank verse, complex characters and violence. “There's not ... «Ubyssey Online, Jul 15»
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McEwen dives into lives of poets
They didn't know blank verse from free verse. If you've never written a sonnet, if you don't know what a villanelle is, then you're missing out on ... «The Keene Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Review: Mark Grist, Devizes Festival
His act is comprised of anecdote, flowing prose, blank verse and rhyme. His work is insightful, angry, touching and respectful in turns. His story ... «The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, Jun 15»
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Night Thoughts
Edward Young's ten thousand line blank verse poem, The Complaint: Night Thoughts, was first published in 1742. It is divided into nine “nights” ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jun 15»
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Songwriters Hall of Fame Honors Hunter and Garcia, Tuneful …
Consequently, one result would be blank verse hallucinations that he would transmute into the lyrics of the Dead song “China Cat Sunflower. «Daily Beast, Jun 15»
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Review Roundup: DOCTOR FAUSTUS, Starring Chris Noth, Opens …
Noth tries hard, but his vocally underpowered performance fails to do justice to the blank verse, and he's never quite able to shake off his ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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The liberal argument for reading Shakespeare
... on one of the soliloquies or from losing oneself Shakespeare's poetry (the plays, you will recall, are written in blank verse) goes unrealized. «Examiner.com, Jun 15»
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Student contest winners share their 'creative reactions' to classical …
The form was flexible, allowing for blank verse, prose, poetry, narrative, even lyrics. The entries were assessed in three rounds by 11 judges, ... «Princeton University, Jun 15»
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Fringe Festival opens with a flourish
Tarantino's naturalistic dialogue easily translates into Elizabethan blank verse and the storyline fits comfortably into that era. Raffish in black ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jun 15»
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'Human predicament engages me'
You have written it in English blank verse — different from the sloka meter. Is this inspired by the complexity of the epic as well as drawing from ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»

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