intro to literature, type of verses

blank verse

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, iambic describes the type of foot that is used - an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, pentameter means that the line has five of feets, paradise lost

free verse

verse libre, an open form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme ir any ither musical pattern, marriage by marianne moore

verse paragraph

group of verse lines forming a subdivision of a poem, the length of this unit being determined by the development of the sense rather than by a formal stanza pattern, Milton's paradise lost