(1) Many Elizabethan plays are written in blank verse.

(2) Most of Shakespeare's plays are written in blank verse.

(3) He works in blank verse occasionally.

(4) She wrote most of her poetry in blank verse.

(5) It was in blank verse that she sang.

(6) Blank verse is not rhymed.

(7) Writing unrhymed blank verse is like playing tennis without a net.

(8) Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17 th - century English poet John Milton.

(9) In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter.

(10) He sometimes spoke blank verse under his breath to imaginary dark women.

(11) Coleridge had developed an apparently relaxed, but in fact extremely clever style of blank verse.

(12) Milton wrote his epic in lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter or what we call, and what Milton would have called, blank verse.

(13) From 1587 he wrote plays for the London theaters, starting with Tamburlaine the Great (published 1590), in which he established dramatic blank verse.

(14) Up to this point in literary history, only verse written for the theater had been written in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, in blank verse.

(15) The language and meter used by Aeschylus in his plays was the forerunner of blank verse, or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

(16) Writers such as William Shakespeare, John Milton and Christopher Marlowe almost exclusively used blank verse in their famous works.

(17) The primary metrical pattern in Frost is the primary metrical pattern in English poetry, which is to say blank verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter.