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
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
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
No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Ezra Pound
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Horace
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Moliere
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
John Barrymore
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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