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What does blank verse mean in Shakespeare's writing?
It was a kind of tradition. Blank verse had been used in the old tragedy Gorbaduc, and became established as the rhythm for noble and portentous speech, and as such was used in many other succeeding...
Shakespeare's blank verse was composed in blank verse, which is to say unrhymed iambic pentameter. Unless you want to know where he did his writing to which question nobody knows the answer.
A paraphrase:
Good friend for Jesus sake forbear,
To dig the dust covering me here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.
It means he doesn't want...
No; while Shakespeare wrote many of his plays in the form of blank verse, using unrhymed iambic pentameter, he was not the first to use this form. The first appearance of blank verse appeared in...