BLANK VERSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blank verse mean? 

• BLANK VERSE (noun)
  The noun BLANK VERSE has 1 sense:

1. unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)

  Familiarity information: BLANK VERSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLANK VERSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("blank verse" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

 Context examples 

A stream of short stories flowed from his pen, and he branched out into the easier forms of verse—the kind he saw printed in the magazines—though he lost his head and wasted two weeks on a tragedy in blank verse, the swift rejection of which, by half a dozen magazines, dumfounded him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For a time, so steeped was he in the plays and in the many favorite passages that impressed themselves almost without effort on his brain, that all the world seemed to shape itself into forms of Elizabethan tragedy or comedy and his very thoughts were in blank verse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)