FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PLAY BY SAKESPEAR
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Question
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Blank verse
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Old English
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Authorial narration
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Prose
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Detailed explanation-1: -The verse form he uses is blank verse. It contains no rhyme, but each line has an internal rhythm with a regular rhythmic pattern. The pattern most favored by Shakespeare is iambic pentameter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Blank verse, the basic pattern of language in Shakespeare’s plays, is (in its regular form) a verse line of ten syllables with five stresses and no rhyme (hence “blank"). It was first used in England by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey* in his translation of the Æneid (c. 1554).
Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s plays contain both prose and verse.
Detailed explanation-4: -Blank Verse refers to unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse resembles prose in that the final words of the lines do not rhyme in any regular pattern (although an occasional rhyming couplet may be found).
Detailed explanation-5: -In Shakespeare’s day, writing in verse was seen as a sign of literary excellence, which is why doing so was conventional.