|Example of Blank Verse |
|Excerpt from Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare |
|Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to |
|dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player 
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage 
And then is heard no more: it is a tale 
Told by|
|an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. |
|Example of Blank Verse |
|The Ball Poem
by
John Berryman |
|What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water! |
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|Forms of Poetry and Literary Terms
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