Prosody Byte - 1 #Blank Verse: Blank verse is poetry written in regular, metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always composed of iambic pentameter. It has a conventional meter that is used for verse drama and long narrative poems. It is often used in descriptive and reflective poems and dramatic monologues. Example 1: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit, Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man (From John Milton's 'Paradise Lost') Example #2: Mending Walls (By Robert Frost) Some thing there is that does n’t love a wall . That sends the fro zen- ground -swell un der it , And spills the up per boul ders in the sun ; This poem has no proper rhyme scheme. However, there is consistent meter in 10 syllables of each line. It is f...
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