I find blank verse makes my own poems long winded, the meter drives me to keep writing, and I feel a narrative voice emerging that I don't feel in a shorter-lined poem.

Around the time of World War I, during the "modernist" period, long poems in blank verse fell out of fashion, but blank verse continued to be used by some twentieth-century poets.

A lot of my poetry is done in free verse, ... I go blank and sink into images tangible with feeling. What you are to me is real, whole and not fragile, Not made of glass nor yet sent to reach me out.

(How to write blank verse poems Back in the good old days of the lai, tessellation by cutting a figure when long poems were written syllabically, it to keep disguising the scarcity of patterns;

Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter (as used in Shakespearean plays). The first known use of blank verse in the English language was by Henry...

One could read and watch these plays and poems knowing nothing of blank verse without loosing any enjoyment or understanding, but with an understanding of the structure new layers of ambiguity...

GIVING MY HEART TO YOU ... If I were to give you my beating heart; Would you treasure it as if it were ... If you decide to give your heart to me;

Shakespeare's blank verse ... But Norton and Sackville chose blank verse for their tragedy, Gorboduc, praised by Sir Philip Sidney for its rhetoric, and by the time Marlowe brought ... Plays & Poems

No,I don't believe poets die when we write in blank verse;we become more animated,more liberated beings. ... In some of my worst blank moments were my best loaded poems...This being no different, Karla!

Send some poems to a friend - the love thought that counts! ... Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse 1,176