ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -Blank Verse is a poetic form which doesn’t rhyme but instead a rhythmic pattern marks it out. Blank Verse is written in Iambic Pentameter meaning that each line has 10 syllables with a stress on syllables 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10.

Detailed explanation-3: -Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-but that does not rhyme. When a poem is written in iambic pentameter, it means each line contains five iambs-two syllable pairs in which the second syllable is emphasized.

Detailed explanation-4: -These lines from Hamlet are written in blank verse (note the lack of rhyme and the consistent meter of unstressed/stressed syllables): “It is not nor it cannot come to good, / But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

Detailed explanation-5: -Much like rhyming iambic pentameter, this meter consists of individual lines that are each made up of five “feet” indicated by the prefix “penta-” in the name. Unrhymed iambic pentameter uses the iambic system, which means that each foot is made up of two syllables, one unstressed and the other stressed.