verse的意思|verse的解释-里氏词典

Verse \Verse\, n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in
writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to
turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers.
See {Worth} to become, and cf. {Advertise}, {Averse},
{Controversy}, {Convert}, {Divers}, {Invert}, {Obverse},
{Prose}, {Suzerain}, {Vortex}.]
1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet
(see {Foot}, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter,
tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in
each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an
Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or
strophe.

2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed
in metrical form; versification; poetry.

Such prompt eloquence
Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.
--Milton.

Virtue was taught in verse. --Prior.

Verse embalms virtue. --Donne.

3. A short division of any composition. Specifically:
(a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.

Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is
objectionable, because not always distinguishable from
the stricter use in the sense of a line.
(b) (Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters
in the Old and New Testaments.

Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into
verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was
divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a
French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first
time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551.
(c) (Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a
single voice to each part.

4. A piece of poetry. ``This verse be thine.'' --Pope.

{Blank verse}, poetry in which the lines do not end in
rhymes.

{Heroic verse}. See under {Heroic}.

Verse \Verse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Versed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Versing}.]
To tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.]

Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. --Shak.

Verse \Verse\, v. i.
To make verses; to versify. [Obs.]

It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. --Sir
P. Sidney.

The church's Liturgical Commission has proposed a different verse: "Nor on this land alone, But be God's mercies known, From shore to shore.
Mitchell began writing verse during long winters on the range. Like most cowboy poets, he didn't show his work to many people because poetry didn't quite fit the cowboy image.
They have said they need to see more detail on enterprise bargaining before making a decision. 'We are going to be looking at chapter and verse of how the non-union arrangements are arrived at and none of that detail has yet been spelled out.
Their favorite verse is Hebrews 13:4: "Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled.
By the time Mazarin died, he had a whole Department of Glory at work headed by Colbert with people like Le Brun in charge of portraiture, the Perrault brothers to write eulogies in prose and verse, Lully to compose celebratory paeans in music.
The play is written in a mixture of prose and verse.
On it is a picture of a steam train chugging over weedy track, with a verse that ends, "I'll highball into heaven on the Ontario Western line."
They discussed issuing a detailed statement "citing chapter and verse" of how Quayle entered the Indiana National Guard in 1969 when many draftees were being sent to Vietnam, according to one campaign aide who insisted on anonymity.
Cowboy poetry has existed as long as there have been cowboys. Several old songs began as cowboy verse and the earliest books of cowboy poems were published as early as the 19th century.
Like her gentlewoman Maria (Tracey Mitchell), she grows shrill in vehement passages, and her grip on the verse slackens. Malvolio (Timothy Davies) owes a great debt to John Cleese, but repays it with interest.
When lawyers asked a second time for permission to file a not-so-brief legal brief that would break the state court's 50-page limit, the attorney on the opposite side responded in terse verse.
Ramsey's verse is straightforward with no histrionics.
Goldberg promised jurors "I'll give you chapter and verse" of the testimony of government witnesses.
Guy Henry, as knight number 2, is the best of a very good quartet. Whether the earlier sacrifice of the verse was worth making for the sake of getting down to the politics later is more questionable.
The more recent landscape of verse is not nearly such a dark wood, but its paths need mapping.
He is famous for being a right-winger, a Eurosceptic who spoke foolishly about foreigners at the 1993 party conference and a purveyor of embarrassingly bad verse.
"Even a madman can be a martyr and folk hero if he kills Israelis," says Mamdou Adwan, a poet and playwright who has published verse about the Egyptian.
Whitley had a verse added to the song.
Next week we have Betjeman, paired with his holiday area in Cornwall, less characteristic than the London suburbs. But this week, Housman, whose verse almost sprouts from his young days among the Shropshire lads.
If Ms. Winterson's book strives for the proportions of an epic, Ms. Colwin's is the prose equivalent of light verse.
Anna is attractive enough, good in bed; there are enough samples of her verse for its awfulness to be credible. But she just materialises out of nowhere with her story of Communist injustice, the answer to a trapped man's prayers.
In a memorable essay nearly 20 years later Eliot admitted that it had not solved the problem of reinventing verse drama.
The verse is remarkably regular in its iambic pentameter pulse, sentences almost always reach their close at the close of a verse line, imagery is eloquent but simply wrought.
The verse is remarkably regular in its iambic pentameter pulse, sentences almost always reach their close at the close of a verse line, imagery is eloquent but simply wrought.
One verse goes: "The king called out his jetfighters.
Another verse was a tongue-twister, but Haig read it without stumbling.
Sponsors were leery of his passion for public issues, progressive causes and free verse. His programs usually aired in sacrificial time slots opposite Bob Hope or Jack Benny.
This production recognises that: every phrase is new-minted and made for the occasion, and supported by consistently fine verse speaking. Alison Chitty's set, a shadowy interior of panelled frescoes, is more brightly lit (Alan Burrett) than at Stratford.
Nor has Gross neglected verse designed initially to be sung including WS Gilbert, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Michael Flanders.
Guillen, one of Latin America's best-known writers and the man who introduced African and Latin musical rhythms into verse, died Sunday after a long illness that resulted in the amputation last month of his left leg, according to Prensa Latina.

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