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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Dod Grile
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