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verse line

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Noun1.verse line - a line of metrical textverse line - a line of metrical text              
verse
poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
iambic - a verse line consisting of iambs
Adonic, Adonic line - a verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; supposedly used in laments by Adonis
line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"
tetrameter - a verse line having four metrical feet
pentameter - a verse line having five metrical feet
hexameter - a verse line having six metrical feet
octameter - a verse line having eight metrical feet
octosyllable - a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines
decasyllable - a verse line having ten syllables
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00 Paperback The art of series PN1042 Drawing on classic examples of metered lines, syllabic lines, and free verse lines, Longenbach (English, U.
The art of the poetic line by Reference & Research Book News
This isn't to say that free verse poetry lacks rhythmic integrity and/or music, that its relation to the line is random or convenient; for tired arguments on the essential slackness of a free verse line, one should consult The New Criterion.
"Goodtime" Jesus and Other Sort-of Prose Poems by Harms, James / West Branch
Any open-minded reader," writes Vickers, "who takes stock of the large number of instances where John Davies of Hereford uses an identical commonplace phrase to that used by the author of A Lover's Complaint, with the same wording, often in the same grammatical-syntactical construction or position within the verse line, will conclude that the similarities are too great, and too frequent, to be a coincidence" (231).
Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford by Bevington, David / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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