verse : Idioms & Phrases

• a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee

Webster 1913

• noun verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus
  Alcaic.
  

WordNet

• (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

Webster 1913

• noun unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)
  

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• poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.

Webster 1913

• noun a comic verse of irregular measure
  jingle; doggerel.
  
  • he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind

WordNet

• noun unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
  vers libre.
  

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• noun a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
  heroic meter; heroic.
  

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• (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.

Webster 1913

• hexameter verse; so called because used by Homer in his epics.

Webster 1913

• (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains a syllable more than the ordinary measure.

Webster 1913

• a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example:

Webster 1913

• noun a single line of words in a poem
  line of poetry.
  

WordNet

• . (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc. Sir W. Scott. (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth.

  These words, "bread and cheese," were their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing "broad and cause," being presently put to death. Fuller.

Webster 1913

• noun nonsensical writing (usually verse)
  nonsense verse; amphigory.
  

WordNet

• noun nonsensical writing (usually verse)
  nonsense verse; amphigory.
  

WordNet

• lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.

Webster 1913

• (Pros.), a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: Th&ecr; queen | w&acr;s &ismac;n | th&ecr; k&ismac;tch | &ecr;n eat&icr;ng | bread &acr;nd | h&omac;n&ecr;y.

Webster 1913

• a translation of F. vers de société, the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society.

Webster 1913

• noun a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
  poem.
  

WordNet

• noun a line of metrical text
  verse.
  

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