Learning Blank Verse
I don’t have any formal qualifications in English.
Poetry has formal forms.
I suppose it has informal forms too. This page finds me forming some things with words.
The blank verse—
An example—
"Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe"
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
My first attempt… a failed walk and a failed fragment!
The second edit, closer to ‘correct’ but with less soul?
On this hike, perhaps a walk, my soul gives out—No, my sole.
—Stewart Ainslie, Sole-less in Aviemore, 28th March 2026
Upon this walk my weary soul gives out—No, not my soul… my sole!
—Stewart Ainslie, Sole-less in Aviemore, 22 May 2026