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2. Rhyme
 “Correspondence of sound between words or
the endings of words, especially when these
are used at the ends of lines of poetry.”

3. Blank Verse
 Verse without rhyme, especially that which
uses iambic pentameters
 Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-
rhyming verse written in iambic pentameters
.

4. Comparison between Rhyme and
Blank Verse:
RHYME; BLANKVERSE;
 Generally use in poem.
 Wool-Full
 Wall-Fall
 Rule-school etc.
 Generally use in un-
rhymed iambic
pentameter.
 Hamlet (William
Shakespeare)
 Dr. Faustus (Christopher
Marlow)
 Macbeth (William
Shakespeare)

5. Rhyme V/s Blank Verse
Rhyme BlankVerse
 Rhyme is not allowed in
serious play .
 It is allowed in a poetry and
comedies .
 Normally we can find
rhyme in a poetry .
 It gives rhythm in each line
of poem.
 Blank verse is also
unnatural for no man
speaks in verse.
 BlankVerse use in tragedy.
 Normally we can find
Blank verse in drama.
 Verse without rhyme but
especially that which uses
iambic pentameter.

6.  Poetry
 Poetry may or may not
use rhyme, as
ordinarily it does not
blank and free verse.
 Blank verse
 Blank verse may be
does not make use of
rhyme at all.

7. Conclusion
•So every dramatist naturally expresses the lively
image in drama though using blank verse.
•Rhyme is justified by its universal use among all the
civilized nation of world.

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