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Blank verse

Blank verse is a verse without rhyme. It uses unrhymed metre. Unrhymed iambic pentametre is typically used. It is most frequently used in reflective, dramatic, or epic compositions.

Example —
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me; you say it wearies you.
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn.
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.

-- Antonio in Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene i, William Shakespeare

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