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Blank Verse Blank verse is poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Ex: “Tis but thy name that is my enemy Thou art thy self, thou not a Montague.

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1 Blank Verse Blank verse is poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Ex: “Tis but thy name that is my enemy Thou art thy self, thou not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is not hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part”

2 Iambic Meter Iambic meter refers to the fact that the lines are written in iambs. An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by an stressed syllable. Ex: “Wilt thou provoke”

3 Iambic pentameter Iambic pentameter is poetry in which each line contains five iambs. Can be rhymed or unrhymed Ex: “Tis but thy name that is my enemy”

4 Couplets A couplet is two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter Ex: “The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.”

5 End-stopped line An end-stopped line has a pause at the end. End-stopped lines reflect normal speech patterns and are often marked by punctuation. All of the meaning is contained in one line Ex: “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

6 Run-on line Run-on line- when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning No punctuation Ex: “O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art As glorious to this night being o’er my head,”


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