BLANK VERSE

unrhymed verse, m- | depending on metre alone. This was the i” | principle on which all the ancient Greek ar|and Latin poems were written. The ym | earliest example of blank verse in English iso traneistion, of 5 es of | which appeared in 1547. The dramas of od Grakeepeare 59 this form, and since his ed | time, tic writers in verse, with the at | notable exception of Dryden, have adopted oe this form. ae [s. 73]