Blank verse

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Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having meter, but no rhyme. The type of meter is usually iambic pentameter.

The first known use of blank verse in the English language was by Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey in his interpretation of the Æneid (c. 1554). He was likely inspired by the Latin original, which is without rhyme, and may have been inspired by the Italian verse form of versi sciolti, which also contained no rhyme.

Blank verse is most associated with William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Milton's Paradise Lost and his other epics are written in blank verse, and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus makes use of the technique.

Russian bylinas are in blank verse.

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