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verse

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1. verse - Noun

2. verse - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. Molière

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. Anna Quindlen

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. Kenneth Rexroth

Never is a good verse too often said. Icelandic Proverb

He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks. Yiddish Proverb

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