What, I wonder, is the market for blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)? I currently working on a project with a friend that involves my taking a story and turning it into blank verse. The story was written with very poetic rhythms and syntax, so the genre seemed a natural fit. Now the big question is, "Is this marketable?" I think yes. I mean, the story being told is of an elevated, classic nature. To me the poetry piece makes the story more authentic. We'll see. At any rate, I'm currently (once again) in awe of Shakespeare, who wrote hundreds of sonnets and reams of lines of blank verse. Sonnet 29 is one of my favorites, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I alone beweep my outcast state . . ." Amazing. And he was rhyming, using meter, and getting it into a fourteen-line scheme. What a guy!
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