Hamlet
What is an example of a blank verse in Hamlet from Act 1 and Act 2?
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Claudius's speech to the court in Act 1 sc 2 is an example of Blank Verse or Iambic Pentameter:
"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe, Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature That we with wisest sorrow think on him Together with remembrance of ourselves. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we—as ’twere with a defeated joy, With an auspicious and a dropping eye..."
