blank versein a sentence
- It is written in blank verse.
- You mean I can keep in the blank verse this time?† (source)
- It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in blank verse.† (source)
- Echoes of my college dissertation rattled about in my head with the filing-card rhythm of scholarly blank verse.† (source)
- Blank verse, I'd say," Rod suggested.† (source)
- 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)
- Fitzgerald has fixed on blank verse as his meter.† (source)
- , which animated Iliadic scenes and characters in a gorgeous, Latinate blank verse that set an example for Milton.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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- But then Shakespeare has no rhymes: blank verse.† (source)
- Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.† (source)
- ] The god of love, That sits above, And knows me, and knows me, How pitiful I deserve,— I mean, in singing: but in loving, Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love.† (source)
- He that plays the king shall be welcome,—his majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o' the sere; and the lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't.† (source)
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