Question

This excerpt is an example of?

Answer 1

The correct answer is “blank verse”. This excerpt belongs to the comic opera “Princess Ida” which is based on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called “The Princess”. The entire dialogue in the comic opera is in blank verse. By definition, blank verse is a literary device, an un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. It is also known as un-rhymed iambic pentameter. A blank verse consists of 10 syllables in each line where unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones. For example, in the last line one can spot the 10 syllables and how the unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones. (“As/ ‘Wo/man, ‘in/ her/ ‘turn, shall/ ‘con/quer/ ‘Man.”). One could use the slash “/” to separate the syllables and the apostrophe “‘” to signal the stressed syllables.

Answer 2

The excerpt is an example of a blank verse. The right answer is the last option.  

 

EXPLANATION

The excerpt which is in the question is taken from the comic opera which is based on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The comic opera is popularly known as “Princess Ida” while the narrative poem is well-known as “The Princess.”  Almost all of the entire dialogue in the excerpt above is in the blank verse mode.  

Blank verse is one kind of literary device that is commonly used in literary work, such as poems. Blank verse is defined as a literary device that is un-rhyming verse (doesn’t have rhyme) and written in iambic pentameter. In prose and poetry, blank verse has a consistent meter with ten syllables in each pentameter line. The meter consists of stressed and unstressed, where the unstressed syllables are followed by the stressed syllables.  

Features of blank verse:

1. The blank verse in poetry doesn’t have a fixed number of lines.

2. Blank verse has a conventional meter which is in long narrative poems and verse drama.  

3. Blank verse is commonly used in reflective and descriptive dramatic monologues and poems,

4. The blank verse can be written in any kind of meter, including trochee, iamb, dactyl, and spondee.

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KEYWORDS: blank verse, features of blank verse, blank verse in poetry  

Subject: English

Class:  10-12

Sub-chapter: Blank verse