In Brief: Blank Verse
Ferrick Gray
Poetically Speaking
Volume 2, Issue 15
Prefatory Remarks
Blank verse is by far the most flexible style of poetry. The most common form is heroic blank verse, and is written in iambic pentameter verses with variations according to pauses.1
It is the style of verse that lies between the formal verse and vers libre, and has some characteristics of each. This gives the poet a simple and flexible means of poetic expression, something not always achievable with formal structures in poetry.