Author Dr S Padmapriya

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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 following the iambic pentameter pattern with five feet in each line. Example #3:  Hamlet  (By William Shakespeare) But, wo