A Free Verse poetry is a poetry having both meter and rhyme
scheme
There is difference between Free Verse and Blank Verse poetry. Free
Verse poetry doesn’t follow a regular meter nor does it have a rhyme scheme. It
is more like a free speech. The first poet who originated free verse poetry in
poetry was the American poet Walt Whitman who tried the style in his masterpiece
work “The Song of Myself” in order to make his poetry different from others.
On the other hand, Blank Verse is a poetic form which follows
a regular meter. It most often uses an ‘iambic pentameter’. But it also has no
rhyme scheme. Iambic pentameter is a meter having 10 syllables, 5 unstressed
and five stressed that produces the du-Dum sound. Blank verse was first tried
in poetry by Earl of Surrey and in English drama by Thomas Norton in his first
English tragic play “Gorboduc”, then by Marlow in his play – “Doctor Faustus”
and Shakespeare nearly in all his plays.
