Verse (poetry)
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A verse is formally a single line in a metrical composition, e.g. poetry. However, the word has come to represent any division or grouping of words in such a composition, which traditionally had been referred to as a stanza.
The word "verse" is commonly used in lieu of "poetry" to distinguish it from prose. Where the common unit of poetry, i.e., verse, is based on meter or rhyme, the common unit of prose is purely grammatical, such as a sentence or paragraph.[1]
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[edit] Types of verse
[edit] Rhymed verse
Rhymed verse is the most commonly used form of verse and generally has a discernible meter and an end rhyme. Example:
I wandered lonely as a cloud:
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
-William Wordsworth
[edit] Blank verse
Blank verse is generally identified by a regular meter, but no end rhyme. Example:
In Mathematics, Woman leads the way:
The narrow-minded pedant still believes
That two and two make four! Why, we can prove,
We women-household drudges as we are-
That two and two make five-or three-or seven;
Or five-and-twenty, if the case demands!
[edit] Free Verse
Free verse is usually defined as having no fixed meter and no end rhyme. Although free verse may include end rhyme, it commonly does not. Example:
I remember the days of dreamings,
From where in the world so much knowledges,
And thoughts of wonderful and funs.
But however life walks ahead,
And ideas are unavailing aloud,
When around so many flies.
Concealed after the masks of sorrow.
As though all of us knew it And we read many books,
At life and lives to our,
And in a head as though by porridge,
the ideas of illness Convolved to our.
Now, we are free on age,
And not closing age,
you Remain man by itself,
not think about plennosti to it,
Go freedom rather.
Partake the fruit of freedom rather,
