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  2. Blank verse - Wikipedia

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    Tennyson's blank verse in poems like "Ulysses" and "The Princess" is musical and regular; his lyric "Tears, Idle Tears" is probably the first important example of the blank verse stanzaic poem. Browning's blank verse, in poems like "Fra Lippo Lippi", is more abrupt and conversational. Gilbert and Sullivan's 1884 opera, Princess Ida, is based on ...

  3. John Milton's poetic style - Wikipedia

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    The Miltonic verse (also Miltonic epic or Miltonic blank verse) was a highly influential poetic style and structure popularized by John Milton. Although Milton wrote earlier poetry, his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes .

  4. The Grave (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "The Grave" is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. [2] It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. [2] [3] According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Philip Doddridge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister. [2]

  5. Ulysses (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is a popular example of the dramatic monologue .

  6. Shakespeare's writing style - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter with clever use of puns and imagery. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted of ten syllables to a line, spoken with a stress on every second syllable. The blank verse of his early plays is quite different from that of his later ones.

  7. Verse (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    A verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. [1] However, verse has come to represent any grouping of lines in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas. [2] Verse in the uncountable sense refers to poetry in contrast to prose. [3]

  8. Midas (Shelley play) - Wikipedia

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    Midas is a verse drama in blank verse by the Romantic writers Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems to it. Written in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, Mary Shelley tried unsuccessfully to have the play published by children's magazines in England in the 1830s; however, it ...

  9. Stichic - Wikipedia

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    Most poetry from the Old English period is considered stichic. Most English poetry written in blank verse, such as the epic Paradise Lost by John Milton, is stichic. A more contemporary example is Joanna Baillie's "Hay making" [1] [2] [3] 1979 Greek epic, in dactylic hexameter, as is Latin epic whether in hexameter or (in very old poets) Saturnian.