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  1. 12-02-2015, 12:02 PM #1
    Fahmida
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    Smile An example of Blank Verse

    "Beggary,shame ,death ,scandal and reproach
    For you I'll hazard all. Why ,what care I?
    For you I'll live and in your love I'll die."
    -Thomas Heywood
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    Because of the end rhymes in lines 2 and 3 this might not be an example of blank verse, but it does have the typical iambic pentameter lines.
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  3. 12-02-2015, 07:03 PM #3
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    Blank verse doesn't rhyme.
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