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verse 1. (not in technical usage) a stanza or other short subdivision of a poem 2. poetry as distinct from prose 3. a. a series of metrical feet forming a rhythmic unit of one line b. (as modifier): verse line 4. a specified type of metre or metrical structure 5. one of the series of short subsections into which most of the writings in the Bible are divided 6. a metrical composition; poem How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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People do, indeed, add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to the name of the metre, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation that makes the poet, but the verse that entitles them all indiscriminately to the name. In the ninth paragraph of the Prologue, for instance, it is quite obvious that "Herdsmen" in the verse "Herdsmen, I say, etc. I wrote, I wrote everything--ponderous essays, scientific and sociological short stories, humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas. |
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