Look up: Verse

1. Verse
   Verse is the principal unit by which metrical compositions are measured. generally speaking, it is equivalent to what we term commonly the line. The elementart unit of metrical compositions is the 'foot' - ie a little group of one or more syllables measured either by accent or by quantity. The verse in turn consists of a certain number of these feet grouped in definite order, on the conclusion of which the writer turns back and repeats the same or a closely related group. As the following verse …
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2. Verse
   In popular songs a verse is the section of the song in which different sets of words are sung to the same repeated melody. This is in contrast to a chorus in which the words and melody are both repeated.
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3. Verse
   Either a definite number of lines of poetry (see stanza) or a general term for poetic composition. Verse, however,  is often used to refer to work  of a slightly lower standard  than  'poetry'. See also parnassian.
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4. verse
   [n] - a line of metrical text 2. [n] - a piece of poetry
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5. verse
   Arrangement of words in a rhythmic pattern, which may depend on the length of syllables (as in Greek or Latin verse), or on stress, as in English. Classical Greek verse depended upon quantity, a...
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6. Verse
   Verse noun [ Middle English vers , Anglo-Saxon fers , Latin versus a line in writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere , versum , to turn, to turn round; akin to English worth to become: confer French vers . See Worth to become, and confer Advertise , Averse , Controversy , Convert , Divers , I …
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7. Verse
   Verse transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Versed ; present participle & verbal noun Versing .] To tell in verse, or poetry. [ Obsolete] « Playing on pipes of corn and versing love.» Shak.
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8. Verse
   Verse intransitive verb To make verses; to versify. [ Obsolete] « It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.» Sir P. Sidney.
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9. verse
   1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, 9) disposed according to metrical rules. ... Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, etc, according to the number of feet in each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or strophe. ... 2. Metrical arrangemen …
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10. verse
    noun a piece of poetry
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11. verse
    noun a line of metrical text
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12. Verse
    `Verse` may refer to: *Verse (poetry), a line of poetry, cf. stanza **Meter (poetry), describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse **The term has also come to mean poetry in general **Blank verse is a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme **Free verse is a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but that is still recognizable as 'poetry' *Chapters and verses of the Bible, a few short lines or sentences ...
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13. Verse
    `Verse` may refer to: *Verse (poetry), a line of poetry, cf. stanza **Meter (poetry), describes the linguistic sound patterns of a verse **The term has also come to mean poetry in general **Blank verse is a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme **Free verse is a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but that is still recognizable as 'poetry' *Chapters and verses of the Bible, a few short lines or sentences ...
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14. Verse
    • (v. t.) To tell in verse, or poetry. • (n.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. • (n.) A piece of poetry. • (n.) Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. • (n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses. • (n.) A short div...
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15. verse
    (from the article `literature`) ...on an analysis of poetry, because the aesthetic problems of literature are there presented in their simplest and purest form. Poetry that fails as ... Sensible things have been said on the question. The poet T.S. Eliot suggested that part of the difficulty lies in the fact that there is the ... ...o...
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16. verse
    as a mass noun, poetry in general (but in a non-judgmental sense); and, as a regular noun, a line of poetry.
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17. verse
    A general word for all kinds of poetry. Also a synonym for a line of poetry, or a synonym for a stanza, esp. in a song.
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18. verse
    
    1. literature in metrical form
    2. a piece of poetry
    3. a line of metrical text
    
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