Poetic Structure: Blank Verse

​BLANK

Verse​

What is poetry?

Multiple Choice

What is Iambic Pentameter?

• A type of verse that has 10 syllables

• A type of verse that has the stress in the second syllable

• Both

I am/a pi/rate with/a wood/en leg.​

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I am a pirate with a wooden leg.

Multiple Choice

What is meter about?

• Sound

• Spelling

• Grammar

​It's a verse in iambic parameter (ten syllables with the stress at the end of every second one).

BUT WITH NO RHYMES.

So what is blank verse?

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​Why do we study poetry?