Blank verse is a type of poetry... there is no specific length. It can be as long or as short as you want it to be. See the wikipedia article for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_verse
I believe it was Emily Dickinson, but you may want to look a bit more into it.
is a verse composed of a variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern. Example:My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.
And also I didn't want it to be tomorrow,
Because then it would be time to do what
I've denied for three weeks of subsistence
And oblivion--ignoring is bliss.
And I saw everything I never did
Lying around me, pieces and steps of the
Success I never got, reminders that
Whatever I planned, I never got far.
But in the middle of these broken promises
To myself, I could see for the first time
That I have not been broken.
And I must keep myself, all that is real,
As daybreak does, and nightfall.
I exist to others, but all I need is me.
I will be the last promise, when all is said
And kept.
No.
He is quoted as saying "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
"A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
How does Whitman’s decision to use free verse support his themes?
a free verse is used so that the poet wouldn't have to make the poem rhyme or have repetition like some of the other poems.
I'm not positive, but I believe the song, "The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a freeverse poem structure.
Wordsworth's "Three years she grew" is one of a set of poems known as â??The Lucy Poemsâ??. The verse uses seven six-line stanzas, each with what is known as an â??aabccbâ?? rhyme scheme. No one has ever identified who â??Lucyâ?? in the poem actually is.
There are no specifications when writing free verse poems. Because free verse poems do not use the traditional method of writing poems. It can be any poem with or without rhyme, it may not be good or follow any poetic pattern.
In the 1st 2 verses the highwayman is very posh and going to the inn.
3rd verse
He is in love with Bess and he is standing below the window
4
Tim the guy who looks after wine is listening and he loves Bess too and he knows Bess loves the highwayman so hes planning revenge which is on a different verse.And Tim is really ugly
5
He is flirting with Bess. He says he'll be back no matter what happens and he'll bring back gold. He steals gold because that's his job, he's a highwayman.
6
He just about touches her hand. He undoes her hair and kisses it. he then goes.
7 and 8 and 9(here comes revenge) soldiers came and drank wine, which Tim gave them. the landlord didnt know about anything. they tied bess up because they knew she loved the highwayman. The soldiers were going to shoot the highwayman ad bess couldn't save him.
10 and 11
Bess reaches and struggles for the gun to save the highwayman.When she heard his horse coming the only thing she could do is kill herself. The sound of the gun would be a warning to the highwayman. So she dies.
12 and 13
The highwayman gets the message and rund away
other verses
he finds out bess is dead at dawn and gets killed
som say they are ghosts
No they can't because then it's a rhyme poem.
^^ that answer is bull. ^^
Of course it can rhyme. It's free verse, meaning it's free to do what you want. As long as the rhyme has no set pattern to it, it is still free verse.
itz about neglecting the elders because of the buzy world
its says abt the generation gap too
The words "free" and "verse" do not rhyme.
Nothing, not really. Many poets have exclaimed that free verse isn't free- they have said that free verse must follow its own rules and not be rambling foolishness. so put thought into your poems and the sky is merely your launchpad.
It has 4 lines.. well to create a sufficient piece of short work well, you could possibly do about 4 to 5 line.
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Actually, there is no set number. A short poem could conceivably be a single line and still be a poem, although 2 lines might make it clearer that it isn't an attempt at a sentence. :)