Verse vs Versifying - What's the difference?
verse | versifying |
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.
A composition in verse.
* (Edward Bulwer Lytton)
As nouns the difference between verse and versifying
is that verse is a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme while versifying is a composition in verse.As verbs the difference between verse and versifying
is that 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 while versifying is .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
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* ----versifying
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- He persuaded my mother to publish a little volume of these versifyings .
