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VERSE LINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does verse line mean?
• VERSE LINE (noun)
The noun VERSE LINE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: VERSE LINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A line of metrical text
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
verse; verse line
Hypernyms ("verse line" is a kind of...):
line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verse line"):
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)
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)
Holonyms ("verse line" is a part of...):
poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)
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