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Blank verse

Click to list Blank Verse, poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech.

Sunday Morning After Saturday Night by Diana Banks

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(on the conflagration at Cupola House, Bury St Edmunds)

The façade was crumbling
Mascara smudged panda eyes
Stared blankly under a tattered

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/06/2012
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With This Hour by Rob Lock

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With this Hour Copyright © Rob Lock 2012

I could read a few more close-printed chapters
of Madame Bovary or go for a three mile walk;
clean the pipe and gutter while the scaffolding's

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Tue, 24/04/2012
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Elephant in the Shed by Rob Lock

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Elephant in the Shed Copyright © Rob Lock 2012


I ought to throw it out. I know that if I'd kept it better
I could find a buyer, given the reputation you've built up,
Mickey - OK, Michael, now - but it was never quite
the same once my one time wife had pointed out

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Songs to Eimhir XXX by Cameron Hawke Smith

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Songs to Eimhir XXX Copyright © Cameron Hawke Smith 2012

From the Gaelic of Sorley MacLean

A bolshevik - I was never seen
paying respect to king or queen,
but if we had a Scotland free

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Tue, 31/01/2012
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News Flash by Rob Lock

News Flash Copyright © Rob Lock 2012

Kalashnikov, bomber jacket, spitfire eyes.
These all hook - but what lingers
is that broad gold ring

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Family by Colin Whyles

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Family Copyright © Colin Whyles 2011

In that it begins with two,
a family is defined by
the bond between them;

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Tue, 28/06/2011
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Inheritance by Thraves Thraveson

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Inheritance Copyright © Thraves Thraveson 2011

Father to son, father to son
Go wealth and title and land
With minimal gifts to the daughter

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Tue, 31/05/2011
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Narrowing the Gap by Thraves Thraveson

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Narrowing the Gap Copyright © Thraves Thraveson

No! she said, I've got a lover/husband
although he's very far away
but I kissed her on the forehead

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Signals by Richard Whiting, read by Jen Overett

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Signals Copyright © Richard Whiting 2010

Reading by Jen Overett

I was searching for signals;
The small, yellow transistor
placed with careful precision

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Tue, 26/04/2011
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Island Wedding by James Knox Whittet, read by Ann Knox Whittet

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Island Wedding Copyright © James Knox Whittet 2009

Reading by Ann Knox Whittet

It is an Islay evening and the winds
from the Atlantic have grown still
and the September sun is letting

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