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Meanings of blank verse in English

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Usage of blank verse in English
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In scope, the poem consists of two thousand lines of blank verse.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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In consequence of his reticence I was driven-ordrove myself-toblank verse.
Bertram Cope's Year
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He had not the slightest notion of what blank verse should be.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
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There were also plays in rhyme, though Yiddish knows not blank verse.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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He uses a good many blanks , but it is not blank verse.
Remarks
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Even the Indian's friend would admit that it was not blank verse.
Remarks
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So that in places you can compare Milton's blank verse with Dryden's.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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His line of blank verse, 'A Railway platform and a Railway inn!'
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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Same of them are in the rimed couplet and others in blank verse.
A History of English Literature
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But the last of the three is the essential of Miltonic blank verse.
Milton
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His is one of the works in which blank verse seems properly used.
Lives of the English Poets / Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.
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He took the entire poem as a model in blank verse.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 / A Magazine...
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I do love blank verse-itmakes the language so choice, like in Shakespeare.
The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen a...
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It is not written in Dryden's favorite heroic couplet but in blank verse.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Her not being learned is another reason against her writing in blank verse.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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For Chopin is not the cool breadth and marmoreal majesty of blank verse.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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