Blank Verse
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Blank verse is poetry that is written in
unrhymed iambic pentameter
Ex:
“Tis but thy name that is my enemy
Thou art thy self, thou not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is not hand, nor foot,
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Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part”
Iambic Meter
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Iambic meter refers to the fact that the lines
are written in iambs.
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An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed
syllable followed by an stressed syllable.
Ex: “Wilt thou provoke”
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Iambic pentameter
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Iambic pentameter is poetry in which each line
contains five iambs.
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Can be rhymed or unrhymed
Ex: “Tis but thy name that is my enemy”
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Couplets
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A couplet is two consecutive lines of poetry
that rhyme and have the same meter
Ex:
“The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.”
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End-stopped line
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An end-stopped line has a pause at the end.
End-stopped lines reflect normal speech
patterns and are often marked by punctuation.
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All of the meaning is contained in one line
Ex: “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
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Run-on line
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Run-on line- when one line ends without a
pause and continues into the next line for its
meaning
No punctuation
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“O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art
As glorious to this night being o’er my head,”
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