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What is the difference between blank verse and free verse?

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Blank Verse vs. Free Verse Main Difference The main difference between Blank Verse and Free Verse is that Blank Verse is a poetry that has un-rhyming lines but depends on a clear meter, whereas Free Verse has not the continuous meter, and free from rhyme.

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Free verse does not mean that anything goes; free verse uses key repetitions of words or key placements of words. What is Blank Verse? Non rhyming lines (hence "blank") all in a regular meter, usually in iambic pentameter.

Both blank verse and free verse are free from rhyme scheme. But, whereas blank verse does have a consistent meter, usually iambic pentameter, that creates a du-DUM rhythm effect, free verse is free from both meter and rhyme. It is free from the limitations of verse poetry.

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