verse
literature in metrical form
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,956 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,545 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- literature in metrical form also: poetry, poesy
- a piece of poetry also: rhyme
- a line of metrical text also: verse line
verb
- compose verses or put into verse also: versify, poetize, poetise He versified the ancient saga
- familiarize through thorough study or experience She versed herself in Roman archeology
verse in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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At once, the voice, which had just commenced another verse stopped short, and inquired, “Who’s there?”
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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This is the half of the truth that the translators who use verse cannot easily tell.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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On the whole, Lodge's sonnets show a much more cheerful and buoyant temper than Daniel's "wailing verse."
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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For both could baffle Babel's lingual curse, And speak in Bion's Doric, and rehearse Cleanthes' hymn or Virgil's sounding verse.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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Take heed, that in thy verse Thou dost the tale rehearse, Else dread a dead man's curse; For this I sought thee.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1