Blank Verse (অমিত্রাক্ষার ছন্দ): যে কবিতার শেষে ছন্দ থাকে না তাকে Blank verse বলে। Poetry without rhyme at the end. (যে কবিতার অত্মমিল নেই) Blank verse poetry has no fixed number of lines.
Examples:
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun; (Mending Walls by Robert Frost)
# বহুনির্বাচনী প্রশ্ন
Behold her, single in the field,
You solitray Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the fatherst Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
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