What is blank verse ? How to write it

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Write-Poetry/step2/Blank-Verse/

Free verse neither rhymes not has fixed meter.Blank verse does have meter,often it is iambic pentameter… five beats to a line ,like a sonnet.But unlike the sonnet it has no rhymes.
The poet Ezra Pound was the person responsible for encouraging poets to leave fixed forms  like the sonnet but now some poets and many readers have tired of free verse and of poems which appeal  only to academics.There is a movement back to form
My own writing history followed that path.I wrote mainly free verse,partly because to write sonnets seemed very hard and almost impertinent for a beginner.But once I began I realized the pleasure of getting intense feelings into a shape.
If you want to write poems as a form  of therapy, they say narrative poems are best for that.Are those called ballads  narrative verse? Like Young Lochinvar…
I suppose people could  it memorize better when few people could read or write.
Blank verse is harder to memorize

Blank
My neighbor locks her door with a brass key.
She walks  by trees  and gazes at the birds.
Onto a Western  omnibus she mounts
To get to town to buy herself a man.
Or is it ham that she is in great need  of?
For she is tired of men and needs no love
Yet ,even when alone, we need to eat
And, to ourselves ,we must in silence speak
I use the video camera on my laptop
To recite the events of every day.
I think this blank verse is quite dull
So I’ll have to write a different way.

Unblank

The leaves are turning red on my computer
The apples ripen  better on TV.
But  my friend says that red  won’t mute  her
So for a new blue coat, she makes a  loving plea.
But as I only learned to speak in BASIC
I do not know if she will understand.
If I write a letter, she’ll deface it.
For my letters tend to be too bland

An email is a different  sort of  kettle
Not the  type we use for boiling fish
So let the  old men find their mettle
And get a  frozen fish  from off a dish

Toss it into Heinz baked beans  a boiling
Let it simmer for a few more days
Then invite  a friend for utter  spoiling.
I’m sure she’ll inundate you   with her praise.

Follow up with custard creams in gravy.
Serve the  peanut butter on a tray
That’s what the folk  eat in our  great Navy.
Eat and eat and pray and disobey.