Definition of verse in English:

verse

noun vəːsvərs

mass noun

1Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
诗；韵文；诗句
a lament in verse
挽诗。
as modifier verse drama
Example sentencesExamples
- I remember reading the following verse in one of my workbooks at primary school and having to memorize it.
- Haiku originated as a simple verse form used to entertain the Japanese upper class.
- For a comprehensive list of German hexameter verse, see Bennett 180-93.
- Robert Frost once classed poetry that way, free verse against formal verse.
- All Gunn's early verse rhymed - he was the most Appollonian of the 50s poets.
- Johnson never claims, when writing Latin verse, to be writing formal verse imitation.
- The only way to write poetry is to begin by writing verse.
- The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate.
- She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse.
- Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages.
- Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter.
- The second verse is composed in your head between the second and third stations of your trip.
- They began writing in iambic pentameter, or in some other " respectable " verse form.
- Johnson uses all of these devices in writing his Latin verse imitations.
- But I don't want to suggest that Martin writes merely a serviceable blank verse.
- Think about taking away the net and writing some blank verse with some metaphors in it.
- The upsurge of early printed verse translations makes public a large and rapidly distributed body of foreign-born poetry.
- Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse.
- The language is mostly the quaint island patois - not the stuff of verse drama.
- Should rhymed verse be translated in English rhyme?
Synonyms
poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel
poems, lyrics, rhymes
literary poesy, Parnassus
poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel
ditty, song, jingle, lay, ballad
rare tenson, verselet
1. 1.1count noun A group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song; a stanza.
  诗节
  the second verse
  第二节诗。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The way his poetry is structured, the verses and the stanzas have much in common with visual arts.
  He was a copious writer, dashing off verses, very often on the wet surfaces of pub tables.
  He sang 34 verses of a song that had been specially written for him.
  He also wrote what I think is one of the most romantic verses of poetry ever.
  Like most pop music, this song transitions from a relatively calm verse to a more raucous chorus.
  Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places.
  Hurston doesn't quote the third verse of the song, which gives the point of the passage away plainly.
  Yasin was extremely nice, and answered my questions, oddly enough, with verses of poetry.
  The verses of this hymn became the favored marching song of the Union forces during the Civil War.
  They both process thrilling ur-poetry: entangled, limitlessly complicated prose poems and verses.
  They laugh and joke and make up verses to songs and poems and chants about women and body parts.
  A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one.
  And they launched into verses upon verses of song.
  Painted all over the parchment that had been plastered to the walls, were verses of poetry.
  Sarah listens to her, and then suddenly the two of them sing a verse of the song.
  We sang the first three verses, and then came my part.
  Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight.
  Ritson also published several popular collections and anthologies of songs, children's verses, fairy stories, etc.
  The tale became the subject of songs, pamphlets, verses sold in trains and on the streets, and popular fiction.
  After crooning a couple of verses of that particular song, Charlie heard a loud thump resonate inside the room.
  Synonyms
  stanza, strophe, stave, canto
  couplet, distich, triplet, tercet, tetrastich
  part, section, portion
2. 1.2count noun Each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.
  （《圣经》或其他经文的）节，句
  we were each required to recite a Bible verse from memory
  on the walls were framed verses from the Koran
  Example sentencesExamples
  It recounts, in twelve expansive books, a story line that occupies only a few verses of the book of Genesis.
  He opened the Bible to John and read the first two verses.
  Koranic verses were recited, with the phrases passing from group to group.
  An evangelical justification for the physical discipline of children goes deeper than a few isolated verses in the Bible, however.
  Also among other tapes one was found in Arabic containing Koranic verses dedicated to teaching.
  Some 21 calligraphic panels of Quranic verses are also on show.
  We have many different such divisions ranging from what would be long verses to chapter style divisions.
  These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses.
  We choose to treat some verses of scripture as having more authority than others.
  It is the shortest verse in the whole Bible: those two words in the English language - Jesus wept.
  A later search uncovered detonators and a tape containing Koranic verses.
  Rachel enjoys memorizing Bible verses and reciting them each week and playing games with her friends.
  Some verses in the Bible imply that snow is a negative force, while others indicate that snow is a positive one.
  Inside the box, there is some candy and a heart-shaped eraser with a Bible verse attached to it.
  In a short work like this we cannot examine all the verses in the Bible which refer to the devil and Satan.
  I'll take a scripture verse from the Bible and I'll share it with a guy.
  Although the verse refers to a judge, the rationale applies to anyone in a position of public trust.
  Listen quietly in your heart and see if an encouraging phrase, or a Scripture verse, or a specific action starts to impress itself upon you.
  Is there a single verse of the Scriptures that teaches us Christ came to bring us to Heaven where we no longer can sin?
  My eyes scanned the page until I found the third verse of the first chapter.
3. 1.3count noun A versicle.
  （做礼拜时牧师领读或领唱，由会众回应的）短句
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was quoting, and more specifically he was quoting the first verse of the twenty-second psalm.
  The children memorize verses and are asked questions about doctrine.
  Both paintings illustrate the power of God's creative energy so forcefully evoked in the opening verses of Psalm 8.
  A liturgical chant sung as the refrain to the verses of a psalm.
4. 1.4archaic count noun A line of poetry.
  〈古〉诗行
  Example sentencesExamples
  Semantic Poetry doesn't arrange verses into bunches of flowers.
  The sisters smiled at the poetry and added a verse onto it.
5. 1.5count noun A passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices.
  （赞美诗的）独唱部；小组唱部
  Example sentencesExamples
  I quoted from the second verse of our national anthem.
  Oh, and there's a huge, meat-grinder chorus between the minstrel verses.

verb vəːsvərs

[no object]archaic

Speak in or compose verse; versify.
〈古〉用诗表达；作诗；改写成诗
he began to verse extemporaneously in her ear
with object thou sat all day, playing on pipes and versing love
Example sentencesExamples
- He maintains, ‘it is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.’

Derivatives

verselet
（做礼拜时牧师领读或领唱，由会众回应的）短句

nounˈvəːslɪtˈvərslət

The unconsidered trifles of this genre and verselets written after 1927 were put together four years after his death in Sphulinga.
Example sentencesExamples
- One little verselet (if you will), that brings me to this is ‘Grant your blessings that meditation be free from intellectualization’.
- Each separate verselet, or sentence, is therefore seen as one bullet item in this paragraph on God-Israel relationships.
- My grandmother read me verselets in Polish (when I was a child) but I don't know the language, understand only some words.

Origin

Old English fers, from Latin versus 'a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing', from vertere 'to turn'; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus.

In his poem ‘Digging’ (1966), Seamus Heaney resolves to carry on the family tradition of digging the soil by ‘digging’ himself, not with a spade like his father and grandfather, but with a pen. The link between agriculture and writing poetry goes all the way back to the origin of the word verse, as Latin versus meant both ‘a turn of the plough, furrow’ and ‘a line of writing’. The idea here is that of a plough turning and marking another straight line or furrow. Versus is also the source of versatile (early 17th century) and version (Late Middle English), and it is based on Latin vertere ‘to turn’, from which vertebra (early 17th century), vertical (mid 16th century), vertigo (Late Middle English), and many other words such as adverse (Late Middle English), convert (Late Middle English), and pervert (Late Middle English) ‘turn bad’. Vortex (mid 17th century) is closely related. Versed (early 17th century), as in well versed in, is different, coming from Latin versari ‘be engaged in’.

Rhymes

amerce, asperse, averse, biodiverse, burse, coerce, converse, curse, diverse, Erse, hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, worse

Definition of verse in US English:

verse

nounvərsvərs

1Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
诗；韵文；诗句
a lament in verse
挽诗。
as modifier verse drama
Example sentencesExamples
- Haiku originated as a simple verse form used to entertain the Japanese upper class.
- The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate.
- All Gunn's early verse rhymed - he was the most Appollonian of the 50s poets.
- Johnson uses all of these devices in writing his Latin verse imitations.
- But I don't want to suggest that Martin writes merely a serviceable blank verse.
- For a comprehensive list of German hexameter verse, see Bennett 180-93.
- Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse.
- Think about taking away the net and writing some blank verse with some metaphors in it.
- Should rhymed verse be translated in English rhyme?
- The only way to write poetry is to begin by writing verse.
- Robert Frost once classed poetry that way, free verse against formal verse.
- I remember reading the following verse in one of my workbooks at primary school and having to memorize it.
- She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse.
- They began writing in iambic pentameter, or in some other " respectable " verse form.
- The second verse is composed in your head between the second and third stations of your trip.
- Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter.
- Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages.
- Johnson never claims, when writing Latin verse, to be writing formal verse imitation.
- The upsurge of early printed verse translations makes public a large and rapidly distributed body of foreign-born poetry.
- The language is mostly the quaint island patois - not the stuff of verse drama.
Synonyms
poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel
poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel
1. 1.1 A group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song; a stanza.
  诗节
  the second verse
  第二节诗。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The way his poetry is structured, the verses and the stanzas have much in common with visual arts.
  Like most pop music, this song transitions from a relatively calm verse to a more raucous chorus.
  Sarah listens to her, and then suddenly the two of them sing a verse of the song.
  After crooning a couple of verses of that particular song, Charlie heard a loud thump resonate inside the room.
  Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight.
  They both process thrilling ur-poetry: entangled, limitlessly complicated prose poems and verses.
  Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places.
  And they launched into verses upon verses of song.
  Hurston doesn't quote the third verse of the song, which gives the point of the passage away plainly.
  A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one.
  Ritson also published several popular collections and anthologies of songs, children's verses, fairy stories, etc.
  He also wrote what I think is one of the most romantic verses of poetry ever.
  Yasin was extremely nice, and answered my questions, oddly enough, with verses of poetry.
  Painted all over the parchment that had been plastered to the walls, were verses of poetry.
  We sang the first three verses, and then came my part.
  He was a copious writer, dashing off verses, very often on the wet surfaces of pub tables.
  The verses of this hymn became the favored marching song of the Union forces during the Civil War.
  He sang 34 verses of a song that had been specially written for him.
  The tale became the subject of songs, pamphlets, verses sold in trains and on the streets, and popular fiction.
  They laugh and joke and make up verses to songs and poems and chants about women and body parts.
  Synonyms
  stanza, strophe, stave, canto
2. 1.2 Each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.
  （《圣经》或其他经文的）节，句
  Example sentencesExamples
  A later search uncovered detonators and a tape containing Koranic verses.
  We have many different such divisions ranging from what would be long verses to chapter style divisions.
  Some verses in the Bible imply that snow is a negative force, while others indicate that snow is a positive one.
  It recounts, in twelve expansive books, a story line that occupies only a few verses of the book of Genesis.
  Inside the box, there is some candy and a heart-shaped eraser with a Bible verse attached to it.
  Is there a single verse of the Scriptures that teaches us Christ came to bring us to Heaven where we no longer can sin?
  Although the verse refers to a judge, the rationale applies to anyone in a position of public trust.
  Also among other tapes one was found in Arabic containing Koranic verses dedicated to teaching.
  Some 21 calligraphic panels of Quranic verses are also on show.
  I'll take a scripture verse from the Bible and I'll share it with a guy.
  Listen quietly in your heart and see if an encouraging phrase, or a Scripture verse, or a specific action starts to impress itself upon you.
  These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses.
  My eyes scanned the page until I found the third verse of the first chapter.
  Koranic verses were recited, with the phrases passing from group to group.
  In a short work like this we cannot examine all the verses in the Bible which refer to the devil and Satan.
  Rachel enjoys memorizing Bible verses and reciting them each week and playing games with her friends.
  An evangelical justification for the physical discipline of children goes deeper than a few isolated verses in the Bible, however.
  He opened the Bible to John and read the first two verses.
  We choose to treat some verses of scripture as having more authority than others.
  It is the shortest verse in the whole Bible: those two words in the English language - Jesus wept.
3. 1.3 A versicle.
  （做礼拜时牧师领读或领唱，由会众回应的）短句
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both paintings illustrate the power of God's creative energy so forcefully evoked in the opening verses of Psalm 8.
  The children memorize verses and are asked questions about doctrine.
  He was quoting, and more specifically he was quoting the first verse of the twenty-second psalm.
  A liturgical chant sung as the refrain to the verses of a psalm.
4. 1.4archaic A line of poetry.
  〈古〉诗行
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sisters smiled at the poetry and added a verse onto it.
  Semantic Poetry doesn't arrange verses into bunches of flowers.
5. 1.5 A passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices.
  （赞美诗的）独唱部；小组唱部
  Example sentencesExamples
  Oh, and there's a huge, meat-grinder chorus between the minstrel verses.
  I quoted from the second verse of our national anthem.

verbvərsvərs

[no object]archaic

Speak in or compose verse; versify.
〈古〉用诗表达；作诗；改写成诗
he began to verse extemporaneously in her ear
with object thou sat all day, playing on pipes and versing love
Example sentencesExamples
- He maintains, ‘it is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.’

Origin

Old English fers, from Latin versus ‘a turn of the plow, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus.

词汇	verse
释义	Definition of verse in English: verse noun vəːsvərs mass noun 1Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. 诗；韵文；诗句 a lament in verse 挽诗。 as modifier verse drama Example sentencesExamples I remember reading the following verse in one of my workbooks at primary school and having to memorize it. Haiku originated as a simple verse form used to entertain the Japanese upper class. For a comprehensive list of German hexameter verse, see Bennett 180-93. Robert Frost once classed poetry that way, free verse against formal verse. All Gunn's early verse rhymed - he was the most Appollonian of the 50s poets. Johnson never claims, when writing Latin verse, to be writing formal verse imitation. The only way to write poetry is to begin by writing verse. The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate. She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse. Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages. Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter. The second verse is composed in your head between the second and third stations of your trip. They began writing in iambic pentameter, or in some other " respectable " verse form. Johnson uses all of these devices in writing his Latin verse imitations. But I don't want to suggest that Martin writes merely a serviceable blank verse. Think about taking away the net and writing some blank verse with some metaphors in it. The upsurge of early printed verse translations makes public a large and rapidly distributed body of foreign-born poetry. Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse. The language is mostly the quaint island patois - not the stuff of verse drama. Should rhymed verse be translated in English rhyme? Synonyms poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel poems, lyrics, rhymes literary poesy, Parnassus poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel ditty, song, jingle, lay, ballad rare tenson, verselet 1.1count noun A group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song; a stanza. 诗节 the second verse 第二节诗。 Example sentencesExamples The way his poetry is structured, the verses and the stanzas have much in common with visual arts. He was a copious writer, dashing off verses, very often on the wet surfaces of pub tables. He sang 34 verses of a song that had been specially written for him. He also wrote what I think is one of the most romantic verses of poetry ever. Like most pop music, this song transitions from a relatively calm verse to a more raucous chorus. Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places. Hurston doesn't quote the third verse of the song, which gives the point of the passage away plainly. Yasin was extremely nice, and answered my questions, oddly enough, with verses of poetry. The verses of this hymn became the favored marching song of the Union forces during the Civil War. They both process thrilling ur-poetry: entangled, limitlessly complicated prose poems and verses. They laugh and joke and make up verses to songs and poems and chants about women and body parts. A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one. And they launched into verses upon verses of song. Painted all over the parchment that had been plastered to the walls, were verses of poetry. Sarah listens to her, and then suddenly the two of them sing a verse of the song. We sang the first three verses, and then came my part. Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight. Ritson also published several popular collections and anthologies of songs, children's verses, fairy stories, etc. The tale became the subject of songs, pamphlets, verses sold in trains and on the streets, and popular fiction. After crooning a couple of verses of that particular song, Charlie heard a loud thump resonate inside the room. Synonyms stanza, strophe, stave, canto couplet, distich, triplet, tercet, tetrastich part, section, portion 1.2count noun Each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture. （《圣经》或其他经文的）节，句 we were each required to recite a Bible verse from memory on the walls were framed verses from the Koran Example sentencesExamples It recounts, in twelve expansive books, a story line that occupies only a few verses of the book of Genesis. He opened the Bible to John and read the first two verses. Koranic verses were recited, with the phrases passing from group to group. An evangelical justification for the physical discipline of children goes deeper than a few isolated verses in the Bible, however. Also among other tapes one was found in Arabic containing Koranic verses dedicated to teaching. Some 21 calligraphic panels of Quranic verses are also on show. We have many different such divisions ranging from what would be long verses to chapter style divisions. These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses. We choose to treat some verses of scripture as having more authority than others. It is the shortest verse in the whole Bible: those two words in the English language - Jesus wept. A later search uncovered detonators and a tape containing Koranic verses. Rachel enjoys memorizing Bible verses and reciting them each week and playing games with her friends. Some verses in the Bible imply that snow is a negative force, while others indicate that snow is a positive one. Inside the box, there is some candy and a heart-shaped eraser with a Bible verse attached to it. In a short work like this we cannot examine all the verses in the Bible which refer to the devil and Satan. I'll take a scripture verse from the Bible and I'll share it with a guy. Although the verse refers to a judge, the rationale applies to anyone in a position of public trust. Listen quietly in your heart and see if an encouraging phrase, or a Scripture verse, or a specific action starts to impress itself upon you. Is there a single verse of the Scriptures that teaches us Christ came to bring us to Heaven where we no longer can sin? My eyes scanned the page until I found the third verse of the first chapter. 1.3count noun A versicle. （做礼拜时牧师领读或领唱，由会众回应的）短句 Example sentencesExamples He was quoting, and more specifically he was quoting the first verse of the twenty-second psalm. The children memorize verses and are asked questions about doctrine. Both paintings illustrate the power of God's creative energy so forcefully evoked in the opening verses of Psalm 8. A liturgical chant sung as the refrain to the verses of a psalm. 1.4archaic count noun A line of poetry. 〈古〉诗行 Example sentencesExamples Semantic Poetry doesn't arrange verses into bunches of flowers. The sisters smiled at the poetry and added a verse onto it. 1.5count noun A passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices. （赞美诗的）独唱部；小组唱部 Example sentencesExamples I quoted from the second verse of our national anthem. Oh, and there's a huge, meat-grinder chorus between the minstrel verses. verb vəːsvərs [no object]archaic Speak in or compose verse; versify. 〈古〉用诗表达；作诗；改写成诗 he began to verse extemporaneously in her ear with object thou sat all day, playing on pipes and versing love Example sentencesExamples He maintains, ‘it is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.’ Derivatives verselet （做礼拜时牧师领读或领唱，由会众回应的）短句 nounˈvəːslɪtˈvərslət The unconsidered trifles of this genre and verselets written after 1927 were put together four years after his death in Sphulinga. Example sentencesExamples One little verselet (if you will), that brings me to this is ‘Grant your blessings that meditation be free from intellectualization’. Each separate verselet, or sentence, is therefore seen as one bullet item in this paragraph on God-Israel relationships. My grandmother read me verselets in Polish (when I was a child) but I don't know the language, understand only some words. Origin Old English fers, from Latin versus 'a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing', from vertere 'to turn'; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus. In his poem ‘Digging’ (1966), Seamus Heaney resolves to carry on the family tradition of digging the soil by ‘digging’ himself, not with a spade like his father and grandfather, but with a pen. The link between agriculture and writing poetry goes all the way back to the origin of the word verse, as Latin versus meant both ‘a turn of the plough, furrow’ and ‘a line of writing’. The idea here is that of a plough turning and marking another straight line or furrow. Versus is also the source of versatile (early 17th century) and version (Late Middle English), and it is based on Latin vertere ‘to turn’, from which vertebra (early 17th century), vertical (mid 16th century), vertigo (Late Middle English), and many other words such as adverse (Late Middle English), convert (Late Middle English), and pervert (Late Middle English) ‘turn bad’. Vortex (mid 17th century) is closely related. Versed (early 17th century), as in well versed in, is different, coming from Latin versari ‘be engaged in’. Rhymes amerce, asperse, averse, biodiverse, burse, coerce, converse, curse, diverse, Erse, hearse, immerse, intersperse, nurse, perse, perverse, purse, reimburse, submerse, terce, terse, transverse, worse Definition of verse in US English: verse nounvərsvərs 1Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. 诗；韵文；诗句 a lament in verse 挽诗。 as modifier verse drama Example sentencesExamples Haiku originated as a simple verse form used to entertain the Japanese upper class. The caricature was accompanied by doggerel verse which used Mr Tolley's name and extolled the virtues of the chocolate. All Gunn's early verse rhymed - he was the most Appollonian of the 50s poets. Johnson uses all of these devices in writing his Latin verse imitations. But I don't want to suggest that Martin writes merely a serviceable blank verse. For a comprehensive list of German hexameter verse, see Bennett 180-93. Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse. Think about taking away the net and writing some blank verse with some metaphors in it. Should rhymed verse be translated in English rhyme? The only way to write poetry is to begin by writing verse. Robert Frost once classed poetry that way, free verse against formal verse. I remember reading the following verse in one of my workbooks at primary school and having to memorize it. She wrote well and often corresponded with friends in doggerel verse. They began writing in iambic pentameter, or in some other " respectable " verse form. The second verse is composed in your head between the second and third stations of your trip. Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter. Her stories, told in nonsense verse, are fast-paced with a rhythm that carries through its pages. Johnson never claims, when writing Latin verse, to be writing formal verse imitation. The upsurge of early printed verse translations makes public a large and rapidly distributed body of foreign-born poetry. The language is mostly the quaint island patois - not the stuff of verse drama. Synonyms poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel 1.1 A group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song; a stanza. 诗节 the second verse 第二节诗。 Example sentencesExamples The way his poetry is structured, the verses and the stanzas have much in common with visual arts. Like most pop music, this song transitions from a relatively calm verse to a more raucous chorus. Sarah listens to her, and then suddenly the two of them sing a verse of the song. After crooning a couple of verses of that particular song, Charlie heard a loud thump resonate inside the room. Every language had its stock of lullabies, nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, fairytales and simple stories of light and delight. They both process thrilling ur-poetry: entangled, limitlessly complicated prose poems and verses. Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places. And they launched into verses upon verses of song. Hurston doesn't quote the third verse of the song, which gives the point of the passage away plainly. A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one. Ritson also published several popular collections and anthologies of songs, children's verses, fairy stories, etc. He also wrote what I think is one of the most romantic verses of poetry ever. Yasin was extremely nice, and answered my questions, oddly enough, with verses of poetry. Painted all over the parchment that had been plastered to the walls, were verses of poetry. We sang the first three verses, and then came my part. He was a copious writer, dashing off verses, very often on the wet surfaces of pub tables. The verses of this hymn became the favored marching song of the Union forces during the Civil War. He sang 34 verses of a song that had been specially written for him. The tale became the subject of songs, pamphlets, verses sold in trains and on the streets, and popular fiction. They laugh and joke and make up verses to songs and poems and chants about women and body parts. Synonyms stanza, strophe, stave, canto 1.2 Each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture. （《圣经》或其他经文的）节，句 Example sentencesExamples A later search uncovered detonators and a tape containing Koranic verses. We have many different such divisions ranging from what would be long verses to chapter style divisions. Some verses in the Bible imply that snow is a negative force, while others indicate that snow is a positive one. It recounts, in twelve expansive books, a story line that occupies only a few verses of the book of Genesis. Inside the box, there is some candy and a heart-shaped eraser with a Bible verse attached to it. Is there a single verse of the Scriptures that teaches us Christ came to bring us to Heaven where we no longer can sin? Although the verse refers to a judge, the rationale applies to anyone in a position of public trust. Also among other tapes one was found in Arabic containing Koranic verses dedicated to teaching. Some 21 calligraphic panels of Quranic verses are also on show. I'll take a scripture verse from the Bible and I'll share it with a guy. Listen quietly in your heart and see if an encouraging phrase, or a Scripture verse, or a specific action starts to impress itself upon you. These moments draw on and return to a practice entrenched in evangelicalism: the use of Bible memory verses. My eyes scanned the page until I found the third verse of the first chapter. Koranic verses were recited, with the phrases passing from group to group. In a short work like this we cannot examine all the verses in the Bible which refer to the devil and Satan. Rachel enjoys memorizing Bible verses and reciting them each week and playing games with her friends. An evangelical justification for the physical discipline of children goes deeper than a few isolated verses in the Bible, however. He opened the Bible to John and read the first two verses. We choose to treat some verses of scripture as having more authority than others. It is the shortest verse in the whole Bible: those two words in the English language - Jesus wept. 1.3 A versicle. （做礼拜时牧师领读或领唱，由会众回应的）短句 Example sentencesExamples Both paintings illustrate the power of God's creative energy so forcefully evoked in the opening verses of Psalm 8. The children memorize verses and are asked questions about doctrine. He was quoting, and more specifically he was quoting the first verse of the twenty-second psalm. A liturgical chant sung as the refrain to the verses of a psalm. 1.4archaic A line of poetry. 〈古〉诗行 Example sentencesExamples The sisters smiled at the poetry and added a verse onto it. Semantic Poetry doesn't arrange verses into bunches of flowers. 1.5 A passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices. （赞美诗的）独唱部；小组唱部 Example sentencesExamples Oh, and there's a huge, meat-grinder chorus between the minstrel verses. I quoted from the second verse of our national anthem. verbvərsvərs [no object]archaic Speak in or compose verse; versify. 〈古〉用诗表达；作诗；改写成诗 he began to verse extemporaneously in her ear with object thou sat all day, playing on pipes and versing love Example sentencesExamples He maintains, ‘it is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.’ Origin Old English fers, from Latin versus ‘a turn of the plow, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in Middle English by Old French vers, from Latin versus.
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