Can you give me an example of "Blank Verse"?

Question

Thank you,

If it is a known and published poet, please supply the name of the peice and the poet.

If it is your own...
Thank you for sharing.
Peace,
Sam

Nice example Kevin!
Thank you .

Answer 1

"Blank Verse" is unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter...like this one:

Brave Hearts

How true the man who knows his inner fear
And yet does not give in to fearing love
Love can and will destroy the careless heart
And turn the strongest man into a child
Who mews and caws as if still in youth's grip
While combing right the beard upon his chin
Yet who'd deny that love itself is strength
That steel cannot resist its tempered edge
The furnace of the heart is where it's forged
And yet when in true hands it's soft as down
Though women know the power of love's desire
It's men who know its danger to their heart
And that is why the bravest of the brave
Have conquered nothing if they still fear love

Kevin M. Sorbello

Answer 2

almost all of shakespeare is written in blank verse: open a play at random and copy out the first section in verse which doesn't obviously rime.

or alternatively you could use the opening of john milton's 'paradise lost':

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world and all our woe,
With loss of Eden till one Greater Man
Restore us and regain the blissful seat
Sing, Heavenly Muse!

Answer 3

Blank verse; alas, it doesn not rhyme
But it holds meter still
And rhythm in the words that flow
Like silk spun from the pen

Answer 4

margot