verse

Definition

  • noun: writing in which words are arranged in a rhythmic pattern
  • noun: a line of metrical writing
  • verb: to make verse
  • synonyms: poetry, versify, versification

Examples

  • He can give 'chapter and verse' about/on the dangers of smoking.

  • The second 'verse' is sung the same way as the first.

  • the 'blank verse' of Shakespeare and Milton

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) why haven't they punished me? They have. Your Grace. What are we reading today? The Book of the Mother, Your Holiness. Chapter three, verse . Ah, "As water rounds the stones, smoothing..." "Smoothing what was jagged, so does a woman's love calm a man's brute nature. A wife salves her husband's wounds, a mother sings her son to sleep." You learn quickly. There are some who know every verse of the sacred text, but don't have a drop of the Mother's mercy in their blood and savages who can't read at all who understand the Father's wisdom. For years I pretended (..)
    2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: The Broken Man Season: 6 Episode 7