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Blank Verse

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Blank Verse, a kind of verse without rhyme, but possessed of rhythm. The term is usually applied in England to the iambic pentameter, which is mainly used in English dramatic poetry and epic poetry. All Shakespeare's plays are in blank verse, as is Milton's Paradise Lost.

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