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Verse logo #10101) Adonic 2) Clerihew 3) Decasyllable 4) Doggerel 5) Elegise 6) Elegize 7) Epos 8) Hexameter 9) Metrify 10) Octameter 11) Octosyllable 12) Part 13) Pentameter 14) Poem 15) Poesy 16) Poetise 17) Poetize 18) Poetry 19) Rhyme 20) Spondaise 21) Spondaize 22) Stanza 23) Tetrameter 24) Tetrametric 25) Versify
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Verse logo #10101) Anti-Gaelic lines 2) Bible makeup 3) Bible quote 4) Bible unit 5) Biblical division 6) Biblical excerpt 7) Biblical passage 8) Biblical sentence 9) Biblical unit 10) Bit of Blake 11) Browning meat and potatoes 12) Canto 13) Chapter partner 14) Chorus complement 15) Chorus complementer 16) Conversed about poetry
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  1. literature in metrical form
  2. a piece of poetry
  3. a line of metrical text

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Verse logo #21000[poetry] In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. However, verse has come to represent any division or grouping of words in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas. In the uncountable (mass noun) sense verse refers to `poetry` as contrasted to p...
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Verse

Verse logo #21000[river] Verse is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...
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verse logo #21032as 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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Verse logo #21002• (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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Verse logo #20151In 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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verse logo #21003(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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verse logo #20688Arrangement 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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verse logo #209731. 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 arrangem...
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Verse logo #22429As a mass noun, poetry in general (but in a non-judgmental sense)
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Verse logo #20972Verse 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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Verse logo #20972Verse 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...
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Verse logo #20972Verse 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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verse logo #21063A 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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Verse logo #20166Either 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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Verse logo #21217In music, a verse is a portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
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Verse logo #22079Poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, that are often, but not necessarily, rhymed.
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verse logo #24157a section of the song that changes after each refrain.
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Verse logo #23819In many older standard songs, an introductory section, often rubato, that leads up to the 'chorus' or main strain, which is the tune as generally recognized. Jazz players (and fakebooks) usually omit the verse, though singers like to use them.
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verse logo #20974 noun a line of metrical text
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verse logo #20974 noun a piece of poetry
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verse logo #21221Arrangement 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 long syllable being regarded as occupying twice the time taken up by a short syllable. In English verse syllables are either stressed (strong) or unstresse...
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verse logo #23665 a piece of poetry
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