The Merits of Shakespeare's The Tempest as a Poem

The Tempest is one of the greatest comic plays of William Shakespeare. This study attempts to disclose the poetic elements of the play as proof to be called a long poem. The paper shows the formations of poetry in the play and ascertains the dominance of verse such as blank verse in Shakespeare's time, which was introduced in place of rhyme, and poetic variations such as accent variation, inversion, deletion of syllables, and additional syllables.