as in free verse
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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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Told in a first-person, free verse style, her struggle to overcome a family tragedy, an ecological catastrophe, and the Great Depression is harrowing yet hopeful.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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Though most of Milosz’s poetry was written in free verse, no effort has been made to force the English versions into the complicated poetic forms the poet sometimes preferred — that would have required a different sense of obligation.—
William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There is so much love, humor, heart and, to this day, mystery that can be found in Shakespeare’s poetry.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
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Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Academy of American Poets, Freeman’s, Harvard Review, Lit Hub, The New Yorker, PEN America, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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