VERSE FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verse form mean? 

• VERSE FORM (noun)
  The noun VERSE FORM has 1 sense:

1. a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

  Familiarity information: VERSE FORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERSE FORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

poem; verse form

Hypernyms ("verse form" is a kind of...):

literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)

Meronyms (parts of "verse form"):

line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)

canto (a major division of a long poem)

verse; verse line (a line of metrical text)

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern ((prosody) a system of versification)

rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verse form"):

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; epos; heroic poem (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; lyric poem (a short poem of songlike quality)

rondeau; rondel (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)

versicle (a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation)