Which sentence best describes the chief characteristics of blank verse? A. It is always made up of eight syllables and never rhymes. B. It is in iambic pentameter and doesn't rhyme. C. It can be in any kind of meter but must never rhyme. D. It is in iambic pentameter and must always rhyme.
Answers
The blank verse refers to the poem which has iambic pentameter but doesn't rhyme. Iambic pentameter is a line of verse in which stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. 'Penta' refers to five and 'meter' refers to measure. Therefore, it is foot or beat which have 10 syllables in each line or five iambs in each line.
Example of blank verse poems is Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Hence, the sentence which best describes the chief characteristics of blank verse is B. It is in iambic pentameter and doesn't rhyme.
Option B) is the correct answer.
A Blank Verse is a verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameters.
What is blank verse?
Blank verse is a literary style which is defined as un-rhyming type of verse written in iambic pentameter.
In poetry and prose, it has a uniform meter with 10 syllables in each line called pentameter; where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed syllables.
At least five of which are stressed but no rhyme.
It is also called as the style of un-rhymed iambic pentameter.