verse
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- noun
- /vɜrs/
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- The little girl loved to recite her favorite verse from the nursery rhyme.
- blank verse
- free verse
- prose and verse
Afterwards of struggle the lover wrote his verses.
- Afterwards of struggle the lover wrote his verses.
- You know, they ended up being this ordered rhyming verse that was making sense of the senseless.
- Leonard Cohen wrote to me verses of that like that that was that was so deliberately crafted, extensively rigorously crafted.
- And so before I start, I found a verse that I thought was very fitting for what you're going through, what the US is going through, and what the world is going through right now.
- OK, the the the poem is written in a kind of free verse, which is a little unusual for him, but goes with with the, the the biblical form.
- And she enrolled me in the amateur dramatic society, the Verse Appreciation Society.
Examples
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And so before I start, I found a verse that I thought was very fitting for what you're going through, what the US is going through, and what the world is going through right now.
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In the poetics of modernist free verse, that is, meter is superseded by texture.
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So if you will please turn to chapter six, verse seven.
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Try the Book of English Verse.
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Whereas with free verse it's more the rhythm of thought.
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That's why nonsense verse has such appeal to young children.
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Machado would have traded every word, every poem, every verse he ever wrote... for one more hour with his beloved.
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My own verses have earned me nothing but rejection slips.
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Then I ran across this simple verse that said, at God's footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt and bowed his head.
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Geoffrey Grigson might have turned down Betjeman's poems for New Verse, but Eliot wanted them for The Criterion.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A short piece of writing that expresses feelings and ideas with rhythm and style
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Writing that uses rhythm, line breaks, and strong images to express feelings and ideas
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A short poem with matching end sounds
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A short poem that expresses personal feelings in a songlike way
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A group of lines in a poem that form one unit
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A form of writing in lines that often rhyme and sound musical
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A short poem that shows personal feelings, often like a song
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A short verse in classical Sanskrit poetry with a fixed rhythm
Compounds
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Unrhymed lines of poetry that usually have five beats and sound like natural speech
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A type of poem with a set number of lines and rhythm like a sonnet or haiku
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A short, silly poem with an uneven beat that people see as low quality
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A four-line stanza with a set rhythm used in ancient Greek and Latin poetry
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A pattern of long lines in poetry used for grand stories like epic poems
How Poetic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word verse comes from Latin versus 'a line' and vertere 'to turn'. So verse came to mean writing with rhythm and rhyme, because its lines are 'turned' into a musical pattern.