blank verse
blank verse noun: a poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
Noun
blank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)
- A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
- Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.
- [T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.1592, Robert Greene, Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance, London: imprinted for William Wright, folio F¹v
blank verse meaning in Telugu and Tagalog
blank verse in Telugu
- blank verse; or a poetical passage formed of one short and two long syllables alternately
- దండకము daṇḍakamu
blank verse in Tagalog
- a poetic form with regular meter
- ditugmang taludturan
Forms of blank verse
| plural | blank verses |
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Questions about blank verse
- What does blank verse mean?
- Blank verse means a poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
- What is blank verse in Telugu?
- Blank verse in Telugu is దండకము (daṇḍakamu). See Blank verse meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is blank verse?
- Blank verse is a noun.
- What is the plural of blank verse?
- The plural of blank verse is blank verses.
Words near blank verse in the dictionary
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