Shakespeare's use of blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, mostly in iambic pentameters.Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter.

1. Shakespeare’s use of blank verse

2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

3. Blank verse Blank verse forms the basic pattern of language in Shakespeare's plays. Blank verse in its regular form is a verse line of ten syllables with five stresses and no rhyme . Hence it is called as "blank”. It was first used in England by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey  in his translation of the  Aeneid  (c.1554 ).

4. Shakespeare's blank verse In general, Shakespeare's blank verse, and the verse of his peers, evolved over the years from regular ten-syllable, regular, end- stopped lines: ( Romeo and Juliet,  2.2.1)

5. Hamlet's most famous soliloquy begins relatively regularly, but the following lines each have an extra syllable :

6. Use of Blank verse in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

7. Example of drama vocabulary-comedy

8. Shakespeare's use of  blank verse , or unrhymed iambic pentameter, is a principal element of his plays. In rhymed verse, the words that fall at the end of lines sound very similar, like "love" and "dove," or "moon" and "June .“

9. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and fly him When he back; you demi -puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimmed The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war - to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt;... ( The Tempest , 5.1) Shakespeare also used  enjambment   more often in his verse. His last plays was given to using feminine endings in which the last syllable of the line is unstressed. F or instance lines 3 and 6 of the following excerpt all of this makes his later blank verse extremely rich and diverse.

10. But , woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your former state, That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. E xample of blank verse from  Hamlet

11. REFERENCES 1.www.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca 2. www.slideplayer.com 3. www.cliffnotes.com 4. wikipedia