Versify vs Verse - What's the difference?
versify | verse | Related terms |
(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
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.
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, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
Versify is a related term of verse.
As verbs the difference between versify and verse
is that versify is (ambitransitive) to make or compose verses while 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 noun verse is
a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.versify
English
Verb
- I'll versify in spite, and do my best.
Derived terms
* (l)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.
