a line of verse ou poetry
31verse — [OE] Verse is one of a large family of English words that come ultimately from the Latin verb vertere or its past participial stem vers . Others include versatile [17], version [16], versus [15], vertebra, vertical, and vertigo, as well as… …
32verse — n. 1. Line (metrically arranged), line of poetry, stich. 2. Versification, poetry, poesy, metrical composition, metrical language. 3. (Common, but improper.) Stanza, stave, staff. 4. Passage (of Scripture), text, sentence. 5. (Poetical.) …
33verse — [OE] Verse is one of a large family of English words that come ultimately from the Latin verb vertere or its past participial stem vers . Others include versatile [17], version [16], versus [15], vertebra, vertical, and vertigo, as well as… …
34line — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a continuous mark or band made on a surface (drew a line). 2 use of lines in art, esp. draughtsmanship or engraving (boldness of line). 3 a thing resembling such a mark esp. a furrow or wrinkle. 4 Mus. a each of (usu. five)… …
35line — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. interline, face; delineate. n. mark; cord, string; crease, wrinkle; verse, note; route, system; vocation, calling; lineage; row, file. See indication, filament, poetry, business, ancestry,… …
36verse — noun 1》 writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme. ↘archaic a line of poetry. 2》 a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song. 3》 each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.… …
37verse — n 1. stanza, strophe, Prosody. stave, canto, stich, line; couplet, Prosody. triplet, Prosody. tercet, quatrain. 2. poem, lyric, sonnet, villanelle, ode, Class. Prosody. epode; rondelet, pastoral, idyll, eclogue, bucolic; rhyme, limerick, jingle,… …
38Meter (poetry) — In poetry, meter (metre in British English) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. The study of… …
39Classical Chinese poetry forms — Poet on a Mountaintop by Shen Zhou, about 1500 CE (Ming Dynasty). Main articles: Chinese poetry and Classical Chinese poetry Classical Chinese poetry forms are those poetry forms, or modes, which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in… …
40Biblical poetry — The ancient Hebrews perceived that there were poetical portions in their sacred texts, as shown by their entitling as songs or chants such passages as Exodus 15:1 19 and Numbers 21:17 20; and a song or chant (shir) is, according to the primary… …
