Blank verse can be composed in any meter and with any amount of feet per line (any line length), though the iamb is generally the predominant foot. ... The first line, for example, scans as a trochee

Blank verse is written in unrhymed ("blank") lines of iambic pentameter. ... An example is Adam's cautioning of Eve when she wishes to forage alone despite Satan's presence in Eden

That the blank verse of Tennyson, for example, a consummate master of this form in certain applications, is cruder (not "rougher" or less perfect in technique) than that of half a dozen...

Blank verse is unrhymed verse, for our purposes usually iambic pentameter, which is verse made of lines of 5 Fortunately Shakespeare's verse is generally more interesting than this example.

Blank verse-not to be confused with free verse consists of successive lines of unrhymed iambic pentametcr. The following portion of a speech by Satan in Paradise Lost will serve as an example:

Blank Verse or not Blank Verse? ... Blank verse doesn't rhyme (although sometimes a line or two might), but it does have rhythm. ... A famous example of blank verse from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Of that magic his manipulation of all verse that he tried—sonnet, stanza, couplet, lyric, what not—is, perhaps, the capital example, but it reaches its very highest point in regard to blank verse.

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 real brilliance

For example, to evaluate Hamlet's character intelligently, ... [Parenthetically, one should observe that scanning blank verse, that is, indicating the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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...