verse Examples

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Examples of verse in a Sentence

Examples of verse
1. skaldic poetry 2009, Greg van Eekhout, Norse Code, Random House, ISBN 9780553592139 : … he could hardly hear an old bit of skaldic verse without it devolving into "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."
2. The music of the measured, scanned verse of Latin and Greek poetry is one thing ; the music of the rhymed, unscanned verse of Villon and the old French poets, la poe'sie chante'e, is another.
3. A realisation of an acteme is called an act, and is the content of one semantically homogeneous verse series.
4. Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.
5. Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse.
6. For they singe such a Genethliacon and byrth verse as was neuer heard of before in the worlde.
7. The inharmoniousness of a verse. — A. Tucker.
Examples of verses
1. He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.
2. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
3. The earliest form we know about composed before Rhysling was blinded, at some drinking bout, and the verses concerned what he would do at the SoLaCon I—if he could find enough blog, a mimeo, and a few willing femmefans.
4. These verses [ …] make me ready to cast.
5. The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran.
6. the second of these qur'anic verses
Examples of versed
1. Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. [ …] Next day she [ …] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
2. The chieftain was well versed in Creek history. ‎
3. He versed us in the finer points of category theory. ‎
4. Hart is not just posh but well-versed in explaining things with fast-handed diplomacy to unpleasant Johnny Foreigners without loosening his Windsor knot, often deploying that go-to Brit spook gadget, the weaponised umbrella.