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It is written in blank verse.
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You mean I can keep in the blank verse this time?† (source)
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It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in blank verse.† (source)
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Echoes of my college dissertation rattled about in my head with the filing-card rhythm of scholarly blank verse.† (source)
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Blank verse, I'd say," Rod suggested.† (source)
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Fitzgerald has fixed on blank verse as his meter.† (source)
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THE ILIAD OF HOMER RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE.† (source)
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He trembles and cannot speak, only stutter, in what may be the shortest line ever written in blank verse: "T-t-t-t-t ..."† (source)
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THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE BOOK I ARGUMENT In a council of the Gods, Minerva calls their attention to Ulysses, still a wanderer.† (source)
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, which animated Iliadic scenes and characters in a gorgeous, Latinate blank verse that set an example for Milton.† (source)
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But in the progress of this work, I have been more and more confirmed in the opinion which I expressed at its commencement, that (whatever may be the extent of my own individual failure) "if justice is ever to be done to the easy flow and majestic simplicity of the grand old Poet, it can only be in the Heroic blank verse."† (source)
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English blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, was developed from Italian models in the sixteenth century and used for epic in Henry Howard's translations from The Aeneid of 1539-46.† (source)
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I have seen isolated passages admirably rendered in other metres; and there are many instances in which a translation line for line and couplet for couplet naturally suggests itself, and in which it is sometimes difficult to avoid an involuntary rhyme; but the blank verse appears to me the only metre capable of adapting itself to all the gradations, if I may use the term, of the Homeric style; from the finished poetry of the numerous similes, in which every touch is nature, and nothing is overcoloured or exaggerated, down to the simple, almost homely, style of some portions of the narrative.† (source)
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Fitzgerald's blank verse seeks to sound traditional, avoiding the freer scansions that unrhymed pentameter took on in the nineteenth century when it was adapted for meditative poetry by Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning.† (source)
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Fitzgerald's stricter blank verse goes back beyond the Romantics, but he does not want to return to Milton's sublime language, which is more Latinate and tinged with Virgilian complexity than Homer's.† (source)
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But then Shakespeare has no rhymes: blank verse.† (source)
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