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Verse vs Rhythmic - What's the difference?

verse | rhythmic |

As a noun verse

is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

As a verb verse

is (obsolete) to compose verses or verse can be to educate about, to teach about or verse can be (colloquial) to oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.

As a adjective rhythmic is

of or relating to rhythm.

verse

English

Etymology 1

Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms
    * blank verse * free verse

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (obsolete) To compose verses.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
  • To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • playing on pipes of corn and versing love

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (vers)
  • to educate about, to teach about.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= 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)
  • (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    rhythmic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rhythmick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to rhythm.
  • Characterized by rhythm.
  • Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
  • With regular, repetitive motion or sound.
  • Derived terms

    * arhythmic * dysrhythmic * idiorhythmic * irrhythmic * rhythmical * unrhythmic