What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water!
Blank verse is unrhymed and quite a lot of Romeo and Juliet is in rhyme. "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand" is an example of blank verse.
But soft! What light through yon-der win-dow breaks?
It is the East and Ju-liet is the sun!
A-rise fair sun and kill the en-vious moon,
Who is al-rea-dy sick and pale with grief
That though her...
An example of blank verse, which is unrhymed poetry that is most often written in iambotic pentameter which resembles the rhythm of ordinary speech, is: What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,...