Blank Verse:
Example of Blank Verse:
Blank verse is a form of poetry. Blank verse is poetry consisting of iambic pentameter lines without rhyme at the end. Blank verse is any kind of verse consisting of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter. An iambic pentameter line is a line of five iambic feet. William Shakespeare wrote most of his play in Blank verse.
Example of Blank Verse:
Tomorrow,
and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(Macbeth by William Shakespeare)