Verse - English meaning

noun

Ballads collectively.

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A send-up of movie love balladry

noun

The nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

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The social composition of villages

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Something that a person has created or written, esp. a text, a work of art, or a piece of music, or the act of creating or writing something

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[ c ] a composition for piano and flute, [ c ] in school we had to write a composition (= short pie…

noun

The way in which the parts of something are arranged

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The composition of sth the company said it plans to change the composition of its board of director…

noun

Comic verse composed in irregular rhythm.

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Doggerel verses

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Poetry that is silly or badly written

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A humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba.

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Verbal abuse and insulting ditties, ballads, limericks, and other doggerel had long been directed a…

proper noun

A town on the river shannon in the west of the republic of ireland; population 52,539 (2006).

proper noun

A county of the republic of ireland, in the west of the province of munster.

noun

(of poetry) expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

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Lyric poems of extraordinary beauty

adjective

Expressing emotions, and often having the quality of a song

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Lyric poetry

noun

A lyric poem or verse.

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An edition of horace's lyrics

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A lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre.

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Born in watford, herts, fletcher started writing odes as a pupil at friern barnet grammar, where he…

combining form

Of the nature of a specified thing.

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Geode

combining form

In names of electrodes, or devices having them.

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Diode

noun

A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.

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The sun is an important symbol in this poem

noun

A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.

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The sun is an important symbol in this poem

noun

A piece of writing in which the words are carefully chosen for the images and ideas they suggest, and in which the sounds of the words when read aloud often follow a particular rhythmic pattern

noun

Poetry.

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They were enamoured of poesy and the fine arts

noun

Poetry

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He believed he would have been hailed more publicly if he had written poesy instead of prose., in t…

noun

Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

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He felt a desire to investigate through poetry the subjects of pain and death

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Poems, esp. as a form of literature

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The poetry of john donne

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Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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Poetic features such as rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration

verb

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another.

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Balloon rhymes with moon

noun

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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Poetic features such as rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration

verb

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another.

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Balloon rhymes with moon

verb

(of words) to have the same final sound, or to use words that have the same final sound

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[ i ] "love" and "above" rhyme., [ c ] can you think of a rhyme for "orange"?, [ u ] she does not u…

adjective

(of a word, syllable, or line) having or ending with an identical or corresponding sound to another.

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Pick a word such as 'pack', and then think of several rhyming words, such as 'stack' or 'sack'

verb

(of a word, syllable, or line) have or end with a sound that corresponds to another.

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Balloon rhymes with moon

verb

Present participle of rhyme

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"blue" and "flew" rhyme., can you think of a word that rhymes with "orange"?

noun

A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in english typically having ten syllables per line.

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Most of the poems employ the forms of the sonnet, rhymed couplets, and ballad stanzas, and most wer…

verb

Compose sonnets.

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And in delightful tones sit sonneting

noun

The form of a poem, especially one whose lines have a regular rhythm

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The apparent casualness disguises the formality of the versification., he abandoned traditional ver…