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blank verses

blank verses is the plural of blank verse.

Meaning of blank verse

Noun

blank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)

  1. A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
    • Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.

Questions about blank verses

What is blank verses the plural of?
Blank verses is the plural of blank verse.

Words near blank verses in the dictionary

  1. blank sheets
  2. blank signature
  3. blank slate
  4. blank slates
  5. blank verse
  6. blank verses
  7. blank-cartridge
  8. blank-cartridges
  9. blank-faced
  10. blank-slateism
  11. blank-slatism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blank verses (page history and authors); blank verse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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