Passages vs Verse - What's the difference?
passages | verse |
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Poetic form in general.
One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
(obsolete) To compose verses.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
To tell in verse, or poetry.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
to educate about, to teach about.
* , chapter=22
, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
As nouns the difference between passages and verse
is that passages is plural of lang=en while verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.As verbs the difference between passages and verse
is that passages is third-person singular of passage while verse is to compose verses.verse
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* blank verse * free verseVerb
(vers)- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- playing on pipes of corn and versing love
Etymology 2
Verb
(vers)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.