What is the effect of blank verse?

Answer 1

Blank verse is one of the most popular forms of English poetry. It is formed by using unrhyming Iambic pentameter lines. This simply means that each line of the poem must contain 10 syllables, and they do not rhyme. Shakespeare used this form of verse often.

Answer 2

Blank verse poetry is unrhymed, but it must have a strict rhythm or meter. In order to write good blank verse, you have to pay attention to syllables and word count.

Whereas Shakespeare's poems are the most well-known (and you can do worse than to read his blank verse works), Milton's Paradise Lost is considered one of the greatest works of blank verse for its complex metre, which would sometimes deviate.

Answer 3

Blank verse is the unrhymed, iambic five-stress (decasyllabic) verse, or iambic pentameter. The effect it gives to a poetry is that it gives the poetry a good sound and it lets the poets continue to structure the poems rhythmically while giving them the freedom to write in ways that sound more like regular speech.

Answer 4

If a piece of poetry is in blank verse, then usually it doesn't have any rhyme scheme. This means that the last word of every line usually doesn't have a line rhyme with it on purpose. Ie. aabbcc=a rhyme scheme. abcdefghijklmnop...etc=blank verse. Robert Frost is an poet that is known to write in blank verse often.

Answer 5

Pay attention to punctuation rather than to line endings.