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Blank Verse Syllabus Craft of Poetry Home Blank Verse is any verse comprised of unrhymed lines all in the same meter, usually iambic pentameter. It was developed in Italy and became widely used during the Renaissance because it resembled classical, unrhymed poetry. Marlowe's mighty line, which demonstrated blank verse's range and flexibility, made blank verse the standard for many English ...

Handbook: Blank Verse ~ In Shakespeare's hands the basic verse line of iambic pentameter (that is, five units, or feet, in which an unstresssed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable: see verse and prose) is capable of producing great variety and subtlety of effect. Unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse. In his early plays the blank verse tends to be more regular than it is in ...