AGES ERA PERIOD
16TH CENTURY
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Question
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iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
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the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
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free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Blank verse” is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unrhymed iambic pentameter uses the iambic system, which means that each foot is made up of two syllables, one unstressed and the other stressed. Many poems are written with a particular meter, such as unrhymed iambic pentameter, which indicates the overall flow that the poem should have when read.
Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics of Iambic Pentameter Therefore, a blank verse has a line of five (Penta) meters. Example: Is this/ the face / that launched / a thou / sand ships… The unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones. The rhythm in each line sounds like ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spanning beyond drama, perhaps the most iconic example of blank verse poetry is the epic Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton. An expansive re-telling of the fall of Adam and Eve, the poem contains over ten thousand lines of blank verse.
Detailed explanation-5: -Blank verse refers to poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines. Free verse refers to an open form of poetry that has no rhyme or rhythm.