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What does blank verse mean?

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Noun
  1. A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
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The artists built the city of Boston on stage, and I wrote a kind of heroic Shakespearean text in blank verse and rhyme about the city's history.
He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden.
Frost's blank verse has the same terseness and concision that mark his poetry in general.
Our hearing is indissolubly wedded to five-beat Shakespearean blank verse, usually unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Observe, she has quitted her octameter trochaics again, and taken to plain blank verse, a sign, perhaps, that she is getting weary of the whole Classical concern.
Those pages read like blank verse, and are snarky and childlike, with a nagging insecurity.

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