Prose vs Versify - What's the difference?
prose | versify |
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
* Milton
Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190
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(ambitransitive) to make or compose verses
* Dryden
to tell in verse; deal with in verse form
to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form
As verbs the difference between prose and versify
is that prose is to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way while versify is (ambitransitive) to make or compose verses.As a noun prose
is language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.prose
English
(wikipedia prose)Noun
(en-noun)- Though known mostly for her prose , she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
- things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
Antonyms
* poetry, verseDerived terms
* prose poem * purple proseVerb
- Pray, do not prose , good Ethelbert, but speak
- What is your purpose?
References
Anagrams
* ----versify
English
Verb
- I'll versify in spite, and do my best.