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"Blank verse really deserving the name I believe...to be impossible except to one or two eminent writers in a generation."
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Blank verseAs it is generally seen, blank verse seems to be only a laborious and — Blank verse
"As it is generally seen, blank verse seems to be only a laborious and doubtful struggle to escape from the fangs of prose. [I]f it ever ventures to relax into simple and natural phraseology, it instantly becomes tame and the prey of its pursuer."
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Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century," and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse."
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"Blank verse seems to be verse only to the eye."
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"If some gentlemen are resolved that blank verse shall be prose, they have my free leave to enjoy their saying, provided I may have theirs to think they mean nothing by it, unless they can prove that rhyme is essential to metre; consequently that the Goths and monks were the first inventers of verse, and that Homer and Virgil, as well as Milton, wrote nothing but prose."
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"Rhyme is no necessary adjunct of true poetry."
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