Blank Verse
Blank verse is a form that has only two requirements:
1. It does not rhyme
2. It is written in iambic pentameter
EXAMPLE:
Ghost of Ophelia by JM Kenyon
My Lord, you dance between two Queens, confused
a mourning martyr and a morning dove
both cleaved of hope, of thought, of voice,
or so the multiples of men would think.
But I'm no less the babe, no more the witch
than what imaginings might trace your mind
I've over flown the mold you've cast me in
and altered all the fashions you've designed.
I've sinned, excusing flows of sinfulness
inscribing them in heart as boons of love
but, ah, the blade you've buried in my chest
I cannot wrest from in my vengeful bones.
I would exact a justice for his death
with your companion Madness in my soul.
'Tis you or I will die, but I can't live
to trip o'er bodies in my shadow's fall
and find you there, the face upon my heart
with your obsessions bleeding black at foot.
I could forever sponge the poison spewed
so long as lips of Hamlet smiled on me.
'Tis life of victim-hood I could endure
but I can't make a victim out of you.
'Tis not Ophelia, "sweets to the sweet" there,
not 'neath the feet of unlovables loved.
I dwell in hamlets between Life and Death,
companioned by a Hamlet's, earthbound vice
because I loved a Hamlet; madness sworn
a man romanced by madmen’s victory.
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