I think it's free verse. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter, whereas free verse is verse with no regular rhyme or metrical pattern. I don't believe Murder In The Cathedral is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
(I got these definitions from a handout from my Lit teacher)
Yes, Murder in the Cathedral was written in verse, particularly in the form of a verse play. The play is primarily composed in a form of blank verse, a style popular in the Elizabethan era that lacks a rhyme scheme.
Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot
Blank verse is poetry written in un rhymed iambic pentameter.
No, "Enoch Arden" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is not written in blank verse. It is written in rhymed verse, using a formal narrative structure with rhyme and meter.
Blank verse
All of Shakespeare's plays are at least partly in blank verse. Only Much Ado about Nothing has more prose than verse.
No, "The Sidewalk Racer" by Lillian Morrison is not a blank verse poem. Blank verse is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter, which "The Sidewalk Racer" does not conform to.
Blank verse
Blank Verse
Blank verse does not have rhymes.
Robert Burns Shaw has written: 'Blank verse'
Blank verse is unrhymed verse typically in iambic pentameter. It is commonly used in English poetry and drama, including works by Shakespeare and Milton. The lack of rhyme scheme in blank verse allows for a more natural and conversational flow of speech.
A poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter is called blank verse. It is a form of poetry commonly used in English literature, characterized by having ten syllables per line with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. Blank verse is often used in plays and epic poems.