Which of these four excerpts from John Milton's poetry is in blank verse?Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,Sing Heavnly Muse, that on the secret topOf Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspireThat Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth(from Paradise LostIn Heav n yclept Euphrosyne,And by men, heart-easing Mirth,Whom lovely Venus at a birthWith two sister Graces moreTo ivy-crowned Bacchus bore(from "L'Allegro")Dissolve me into extasies,And bring all Heav'n before mine eyes.And may at last my weary ageFind out the peaceful hermitage,The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell(rom "Il Penseroso")Where I may sit and rightly spellof every Star that Heav'n doth shew,And every Herb that sips the dew.Till old experience do attainTo somthing like Prophetic strain.(from "Il Penseroso")
The first stanza shown is in blank verse. Blank verse does not have a rhyme scheme, but it does use iambic pentameter - five iambic feet in a line (a da DUM stress pattern). For example, “reSTORE us AND reGAIN the BLISSful SEAT”, where the capitalised words are stressed. There is no rhyming for the final words in each line in this stanza.
