blank verse

English

Noun

blank verse (countable and uncountable, plural blank verses)

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

   Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakesperian beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.

Translations

a poetic form with regular meter

• Catalan: vers blanc m
• French: vers blanc (fr) m
• German: Blankvers (de) m
• Hebrew: חָרוּז לָבָן (he) m (ẖarúz laván)
• Italian: verso sciolto m
• Polish: wiersz biały m
• Portuguese: verso branco (pt) m, verso solto m
• Romanian: vers alb
• Russian: белый стих (ru) m (belyj stix)
• Spanish: verso blanco m
• Tagalog: ditugmang taludturan
• Ukrainian: білий вірш (uk) m (bilyj virš)