Dramatic Poetry
Dramatic poetry is drama that has been written to be spoken. It is typically meant to be performed for an audience. Blank verse, also known as unrhymed iambic pentameter is the most common form of dramatic poetry. This is written so that the pattern of the spoken words closely resembles normal human speech patterns and not the stylized, often … Keep Reading → consistent rhythms and patterns commonly associated with poetry. Most of the plays of William Shakespeare stand out as the classic example of the use of blank verse and dramatic poetry. The question has been asked; if blank verse is similar to normal patterns of speech then why didn’t Shakespeare and others just use the normal speech patterns. There are subtle differences. Dramatic poetry doesn’t have a consistent rhythm, but it also isn’t as variable as normal human speech. It places parameters on pauses and inflections so there is a pattern, just not an obvious one.
