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literature in metrical form a piece of poetry a line of metrical text compose verses or put into verse "He versified the ancient saga" familiarize through thorough study or experience "She versed herself in Roman archeology"
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cleanup-dateSeptember 2005 Most verse writing uses meter (poetry)meter as its primary organisational mode, as opposed to prose, which uses Grammargrammatical and Discoursediscoursal units like Sentence (linguistics)sentences and paragraphs. Verse may also use rhyme and other technical devices that are often associated with poetry.Not all verse is poetry. Generally speaking, what separates the two is that in poetry language achieves the highest possible level of condensation.In popular music a verse roughly corresponds with a poetic stanza. It is often sharply contrasted with the chorus or refrain melodymelodically, rhythmically, and harmonyharmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation. See: strophic form, verse-chorus form and Thirty-two-bar form.Holy books such as the Bible or Qur'an are divided into small verses. See Chapters and verses of the Bible and ayah.
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