2-Minute Writer: Blank Verse & Free Verse

Have you ever wondered about the difference between blank verse and free verse? Is there a difference at all? Turns out there is, and it's easy to tell if you have the right definitions.

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[georgegabrieltan]

Thank you so very much I now understand the differences of blank and free verse keep up the good work!

[lohkoon]

Rhymed lines can touch and enchant us;
One should write one's own lines of verse.

[davidlow]

what was that book titled that you held up that had the free verse examples in it?

[elijahefg]

i think that bright green TS Elliot book might have been dyed with arsenic. you can tell by the color.

[Asifahamed-cgkz]

Madam I completed m.a in English literature. Could you please suggest top mcq English literature books

[redsol]

Take everything you have been told about free verse. Put it into a bag and throw that bag out the widnow.

Be bold!

[uranusgemini]

Why are we so taken and stick to only verses in poetry written before our age, when we have commendable modern examples as the one in the sample of a single Scene in a play about George Washington show below?

[alexblynne]

Blank verse always seemed like it was more than half wishful thinking to me. Regional accents can and do change the stressed words and syllables, and a poem that ceases to be a poem when it's read by someone from Long Island or the Mississippi always seemed to have a fatal weakness. Wait a century or two, and a couple of vowel shifts down the road will turn your poem into prose. Does that not bug the living hell out of anyone else?

[boxfox]

Not much sence, holding up a book. That can't be seen. And the poem isn't read..