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Recent Examples of blank verse
The piece has the pattern of blank verse.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.
—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.
—Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
The blank verse brings vim to the proceedings, but there’s nothing in Trump, real or imagined, that could match Charles’ hubristic, bone-crushing personal tragedy.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.
—Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.
—Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
The blank verse brings vim to the proceedings, but there’s nothing in Trump, real or imagined, that could match Charles’ hubristic, bone-crushing personal tragedy.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022
Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blank verse
Noun
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For Ginsberg, ever-attuned to the rhythmic physicality of verse, the central atom of poetry wasn’t the line or the foot, but rather the breath, emphasizing that his were longer than his free verse hero Whitman because the good, grey poet probably had smaller lungs.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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The history of art reads here as one long, free verse poem-in-progress, gorgeous and absorbing.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The book is a poetry collection structured in three acts with seven players, each assigned a color of the rainbow and an apparition’s name, each of whom needs an audience to fully exist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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From Bay Area poetry slams to national television, Frak has built a career around quick wit, improvisation, and sharp punchlines.—
Tylan Jennings,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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“Blank verse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blank%20verse. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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