line of verse
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- noun
- Literature
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- Still trembling after this first visit from the muse, I held out to them the paper with the lines of verse.
Instead, I've tried to weave into these brief comments their own words, their own phrases, their own lines of verse, as a tribute to what they're writing means to me.
- Instead, I've tried to weave into these brief comments their own words, their own phrases, their own lines of verse, as a tribute to what they're writing means to me.
Examples
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He meticulously crafted each line of verse to evoke strong emotions in his readers.
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She then quotes six lines of verse on the spirit of charity.
Academic text (1993) -
And every now and then, he'd spend an afternoon or so writing lines of verse.
Fiction book (1991) -
Indeed, the book ends with four lines of verse by Applewhite.
Academic text (1990) -
For Marlise, heartbreak means she can't finish a sentence, let alone a line of verse.
Fiction book (1998) -
You might call silence a caesura, a break in a line of verse, the line pausing naturally to breathe, right on time, on a dime.
Fiction book (1997) -
Instead, I've tried to weave into these brief comments their own words, their own phrases, their own lines of verse, as a tribute to what they're writing means to me.
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In lines of verse that stretch over story the way tendon slides over bone, Ovid shapes the perversely half-human into beautiful form.
Academic text (2008) -
As wine gradually loosens Mustafa's reticence, he recites in fluent and impeccable English the following lines of verse about World War I:
Academic text (2008) -
The poem consists of several stanzas, each containing a unique line of verse.
Synonyms
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3.4
A set of lines in a poem or song
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A single row of words in a poem that forms meaning or rhythm
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9.9
A single line of a poem often found in classical poetry
A single line of a poem
A single line of a poem with its own rhythm
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Morphology
The meaning 'a single line of words in a poem' is directly compositional from 'line' (a row or sequence of words) + 'of' (partitive/possessive) + 'verse' (a unit of poetry). This standard noun + of + noun construction is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary English composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Line of verse comes from the simple picture of a poem written in rows: a line is one row of words and verse means a 'poem' or a part of a poem, so the phrase means one row of words in a poem.