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Blank Verse: A Beginner’s Guide

5th Apr 20205th Apr 2020 ~ Rosie Wood ~ Leave a comment

Blank verse is a fairly straight forward concept to get your head around (but it is not to be confused with free verse, the two are incredibly different.) Blank verse follows a non-rhyming, strict metrical pattern, usually iambic pentameter. Blank verse became very popular during the renaissance, and the most famous person to use it … Continue reading Blank Verse: A Beginner’s Guide

Hi there! I’m Rosie Wood, I have been writing poetry avidly for 13 years (unlucky for some!)

When I was a teen, one of my guiltiest (and nerdiest) pleasures was getting a pencil and a poetry book and scribbling my amateur analysis all over it.

One English Literature degree and half a postgraduate creative writing degree later, I hope that my current book scribblings aren’t quite as sacreligious!

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