The Only Use of
blank verse
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- The god of love, That sits above, And knows me, and knows me, How pitiful I deserve,— I mean, in singing: but in loving, Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a whole book full of these quondam carpet-mongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
unrhymed poetry with a consistent metrical pattern