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Grammar : Noun

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Définition of blank verse

Origin :
  • 1580s; the thing itself is attested in English poetry from mid-16c. and is classical in origin.
  • As in poem : noun highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece
  • As in iambic pentameter : noun a meter in poetry
  • As in poesy : noun poem
Example sentences :
  • But we must now regard the application of blank verse to the use of the drama.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • Blank verse he would have found quite easy compared to this.
  • Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
  • The use of blank verse had yet to be discovered, and Lyly was to have a hand in this matter also.
  • Extract from : « John Lyly » by John Dover Wilson
  • I believe they talk in blank verse with occasional lapses into rhyme.
  • Extract from : « Molly Brown's Orchard Home » by Nell Speed
  • His facility in the handling of blank verse is also remarkable.
  • Extract from : « Victorian Worthies » by George Henry Blore
  • Philippa occasionally broke into blank verse like this, but not often.
  • Extract from : « Much Darker Days » by Andrew Lang (AKA A. Huge Longway)
  • But the last of the three is the essential of Miltonic blank verse.
  • Extract from : « Milton » by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
  • In England the dispute is not yet settled which is to be preferred, rhyme or blank verse.
  • Extract from : « Seven Discourses on Art » by Joshua Reynolds
  • He had not the slightest notion of what blank verse should be.
  • Extract from : « The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • This is a very modern gathering, and blank verse is not appreciated.
  • Extract from : « Dorothy's Triumph » by Evelyn Raymond

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