verse form

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verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines poem line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem literary composition, literary work - imaginative or creative writing abecedarius - a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order Alcaic, Alcaic verse - verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus ballad, lay - a narrative poem of popular origin ballade - a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy blank verse - unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) elegy, lament - a mournful poem; a lament for the dead epic, epic poem, heroic poem, epos - a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds free verse, vers libre - unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern haiku - an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines lyric poem, lyric - a short poem of songlike quality rondel, rondeau - a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme tanka - a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables terza rima - a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. rhyme, verse - a piece of poetry canto - a major division of a long poem verse line, verse - a line of metrical text versicle - a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody - (prosody) a system of versification rhyme, rime - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)