Unrhyming iambic pentameter, also called heroic verse. This 10-syllable line is the predominant rhythm of traditional English dramatic and epic poetry, as it is considered the closest to English speec [..]

1580s; the thing itself is attested in English poetry from mid-16c. and is classical in origin.

Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. Blank verse has been called the most "natural" verse form for dramatic works, since it supposedly i [..]

A poem without rhyming lines and often with a pattern of five iambic feet (rhythm pattern is: da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM).

Blank verse is the technical name for unrhymed iambic pentameter — i.e., verse of five feet per line, with the stress on the second beat of each foot. It's one of the most common kinds [..]

A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's plays are largely blank verse, as are other Renaissance plays. Blank verse was the most popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England. He [..]

the metrical verse form most like everyday human speech; blank verse consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter. Many of Shakespeare’s plays are in blank verse, as is William Wordsworth’s &qu [..]

is the metre most frequently used by Shakespeare. It consists of an unrhymed iambic pentameter. It was first used in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's, translation of Books 2 and 4 of Virgil's [..]

Verse in iambic pentameter without rhyme scheme, often used in verse drama in the sixteenth century (Marlowe and Shakespeare) and later used for poetry (Milton, Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Browning).

Poetry in which a highly patterned line shape replaced rhyme. The style was developed in England between 1539 – 1546 by the Earl of Surrey for his translation of the books of the Aeneid. The obliterat [..]

Unrhymed iambic pentameter (q.v.) poetry.

 – unrhymed iambi pentameter

 unrhymed iambic pentameter

unrhymed poetry that adheres to a strict pattern in that each line is an iambic pentameter (a ten-syllable line with five stresses). It is close to the rhythm of speech or prose

Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Burlesque. A work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms (that is, with mock dignity). Burlesque concentrates on derisive imitation, usually in exaggerated terms. Literary genres (like the tragic drama) c [..]

Unrhymed poetry, usually iambic pentameter. Example: Paradise Lost (Milton), Tintern Abbey (Wordsworth), The Second Coming (Yeats).

Verse that does not employ a rhyme scheme. Blank verse, however, is not the same as free verse because it employs a meter e.g. Paradise Lost by John Milton which is written in iambic pentameters. [..]

English verse without rhyme.

unrhymed iambic pentameter, virtually indistinguishable from prose but for its more or less regular meter, which imparts to it a sonorous importance and dignity.  Surrey usually is given credit for in [..]

Thanks to a lot of very old, very famous white guys, blank verse is one of the most common forms of English poetry. Oh, and we should say—it's anything but blank. The term refers to verse that ha [..]