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verse form

n. a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines [syn: poem]

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The Turin verses are in an alliterative measure, a modern version of the Anglo-Saxon verse form.

The subject under discussion is not poetry in general, but the limerick as a verse form.

The Persians also called this verse form taraneh, 'snatch', or, for a form very close to it, dobaiti, 'two-liner'.

The verse form that he chose was from a country thousands of miles toward the sunrise.

This last seemed, given the subject matter of my poem, an obvious verse form to follow.

In fact the epitome of literary grace is to address your enemy (publicly) in some difficult verse form, say the sestina, with every word dripping vitriol.

Back in 1835 a man called Lonnrot gathered together a lot of folk tales and issued them in verse form -- that was the Kalevela, the Finnish national epic.

Then she spoke on the new verse form sweeping the social parlors and poetry dens of Shin.