Which structure does Shakespeare use in writing his plays? blank verse only blank verse and prose only rhymed iambic pentameter and prose only rhymed iambic pentameter, blank verse, and prose
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A quick flick through any edition of a Shakespeare play is a visual reminder that all his drama is written using both prose and verse. On the page, the prose runs continuously from margin to margin, while the verse is set out in narrower blocks, neatly aligned on the left (where lines all begin with capital letters), but forming a slightly ragged right-hand edge. It’s easy then to distinguish between the ‘natural’ mode of prose, where the layout is determined only by the width of the page or the change from one speaker to another, and the ‘artificial’ mode of poetry, where the length of the line is measured in some other way.
When writing plays Shakespeare had a metrical pattern that consisted of lines in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
This is also known as blank verse.
Most of his plays have been composed in using this writing style but there are passages where Shakespeare also gets deviated from the stated norm and uses poetry or simple prose.