The Verge

How does the playwright use blank verse in the play, The Verge?

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Blank verse is lines of poetry that do not rhyme. Blank verse is most often associated with iambic pentameter in which each line contains five sections or feet ("iambs"), each one containing one soft and one hard accent as in the line, "I wish I had a dog to call my own." Blank verse does not necessarily have to conform to this iambic model as long as it maintains some degree of meter. Claire speaks in blank verse when she is trying to convey her dreams and emotions to the other characters. The more agitated she becomes, the more she uses this poetic device to try and get her point across. Claire's scene in act 2 with Tom in the tower is particularly full of blank verse.

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