Usually means: Unrhymed iambic pentameter poetic form.
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  1. blank verse: Merriam-Webster
  2. blank verse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blank verse: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blank verse: Vocabulary.com
  5. blank-verse, blank verse: Wordnik
  6. blank verse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. blank verse: Wiktionary
  8. blank verse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. blank verse: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. blank verse: Dictionary.com
  11. Blank-verse, Blank verse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. blank verse: Rhymezone
  13. Blank Verse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. blank verse: FreeDictionary.org
  15. blank verse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. blank verse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. blank verse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. BLANK VERSE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. Blank-verse, blank verse: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blank verse)

▸ noun:  (poetry) A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.

Similar:
free verse, blank, nonaccent, poetrylessness, rhymelessness, poemlessness, refractory rhyme, blank slate, atonality, unstress, more...

Opposite:
rhymed verse, metered verse, formal verse

Phrases:
like blank verse, bit of blank verse, more...

Adjectives:
unrhymed, rhymeless, psychological, unscanned, accentless, vague, pointless, unwritten, unaccented, tongueless, purportless

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Similar:
free verse, blank, nonaccent, poetrylessness, rhymelessness, poemlessness, refractory rhyme, blank slate, atonality, unstress, more...

Opposite:
rhymed verse, metered verse, formal verse

Phrases:
like blank verse, bit of blank verse, more...

Adjectives:
unrhymed, rhymeless, psychological, unscanned, accentless, vague, pointless, unwritten, unaccented, tongueless, purportless



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