Welcome to our Writing lessons on JESTERCREW! We have just added this feature to JESTERCREW so if there is any problems or errors please email Griffin Granberg with what went on. Thanks a bunch and I hope you enjoy this section! Explanation and History  Lesson Author: kuito                         Blank Verse:      Blank verse is composed of unrhymed lines of iambic    pentameter, which is five feet in which a stressed syllable    is followed by an unstressed syllable.      Blank verse is the standard for poetic drama.  It was    used early on by the Earl of Surrey in 1540, and was first    used in an English play in 1563.  Shortly after,    Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow began popularizing    the form in their groundbreaking plays.  John Milton also    used it in the mid 1600’s in his famous Paradise Lost.     Since then famous poets from William Wordsworth to    Robert Frost have used the form.   Lesson Script Developed/Maintained by: Griffin Granberg Copyright (c) 2001 -- Griffin Granberg