Verse vs Couplet - What's the difference?
verse | couplet |
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.
(literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
As nouns the difference between verse and couplet
is that verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme while couplet is a pair of lines with rhyming end words.As a verb 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.
Etymology 3
Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb *verses .Verb
(vers)External links
* * *Anagrams
* ----couplet
English
(wikipedia couplet)Noun
(en noun)- 5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in