Blank Verse

[rayheinrich]

If writing blank verse is your hanker
Written straight it will bore like a banker
You bend it and yank it
And tear, even spank it
The blank's written best by a wanker

I don't know, Robert Frost wrote some beautiful things in Blank Verse, I think the slow drawl of the style demands that one must pay attention, of course that is not excuse to ramble repetitively and writers of blank verse may be wankers.

Yes, Robert Frost wrote many beautiful poems using blank verse.
And that's because he was a wanker not a banker.
He knew how to vary the blank verse instead of writing it straight.

Here's an example of his wankerness:

One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.

You can find the complete poem here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173524