🎶 A part of a song 📝 Poetry ✍️ To write poetry

to verse

3 7.2

To write something as a poem

verb
/vɜrs/

Literature

: versificar

The young poet will verse her experiences during the summer in a collection of sonnets.

Examples

She will perform endless tasks to assist in her child's study: sharpen pencils and make midnight snacks as the child studies, attend cram schools to verse herself in subjects.

Academic text (1991)
After years of practice, he learned to verse his thoughts eloquently for his audience.
You are not ready to write until you are very well read and well versed in the literature you are proposing to create.
He decided to verse his feelings about the breakup in a heartfelt poem.

Synonyms

to versify

vsto verse

Literature

9.4

To write something as a poem

is broader, covering composing poems or expressing ideas in poetic form

to poetize

vsto verse

8.4

To write something so it reads like a poem

is more specific about making actual poems rather than only adding poetic tone

Compounds

free verse

Literature

3 6.0

Poems that do not have regular rhyme or a steady beat

blank verse

Literature

1 7.7

Unrhymed lines of poetry that usually have five beats and sound like natural speech

line of verse

Literature

1 4.0

A single row of words that is part of a poem

verse form

Literature

1 7.0

A type of poem with a set number of lines and rhythm like a sonnet or haiku

doggerel verse

Literature

9.4

A short, silly poem with an uneven beat that people see as low quality

Alcaic verse

Literature

9.9

A four-line stanza with a set rhythm used in ancient Greek and Latin poetry

melic verse

Literature

9.9

A poem that people sing, like ancient Greek songs

heroic verse

Literature

9.7

A pattern of long lines in poetry used for grand stories like epic poems

nonsense verse

Literature

7.0

Short funny poems that use silly words and strange ideas

sotadic verse

Literature

9.9

A line of poetry that reads the same forwards and backwards

stichic verse

Literature

9.9

Poetry that uses lines of the same length and rhythm without stanzas

verse line

Literature

5.4

A single line of a poem with its own rhythm

Surface Forms

verse infinitive

versing present participle

verses third person singular

versed past

versed past participle

Etymology

The word verse comes from the Latin vertere, which means 'to turn', and from versus, which meant 'a line' of writing. So, to verse a story is to 'turn' it into lines and rhythm, in other words to make it poetry.