Blank Verse: Unrhyming iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse, a ten-syllable line and the usual rhythm of english dramatic and epic poetry from its introduction by henry howard, earl of surrey, in his translation of books ii and iv of virgil's certain books of virgil's æneis. Shakespeare's hamlet ii.2.339: 'the lady shall say her minde freely: or the blanke verse shall halt for't.' poems such as john milton's paradise lost, robert browning's dramatic monologues, and wallace steven's 'sunday morning' use blank verse.

 

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