Definition of Verse

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Definition of Verse

Verse

A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.

A short division of any composition.

A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.

One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.

A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

A piece of poetry.

To tell in verse, or poetry.

To make verses; to versify.

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Verse Quotations

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
Neil Young

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Paul Cezanne

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
Philip Pullman

Verse Translations

verse in Afrikaans is vers
verse in Dutch is strofe, couplet
verse in German is Vers, Vers, Strophe
verse in Latin is poema poematis, versus
verse in Portuguese is verso
verse in Spanish is verso
verse in Swedish is vers, strof

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