A poem especially one that rhymes is called verse. The children's author Dr. Seuss wrote in verse, and the regular rhymes of "The Cat in the Hat" helped generations of children learn to read.
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see
Noun
a piece of poetry
Noun
a line of metrical text
Noun
literature in metrical form
Verb
familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"
Verb
compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga"
n.
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see
Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
n.
Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in
metrical form; versification; poetry.
n.
A short division of any composition.
n.
A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
n.
One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and
New Testaments.
n.
A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to
each part.
n.
A piece of poetry.
v. t.
To tell in verse, or poetry.
v. i.
To make verses; to versify.
Verse
Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.
Virtue was taught in verse.
Verse embalms virtue.3.
Verse
Playing on pipes of corn and versing love.
Verse
It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see
To tell in verse, or poetry.
To make verses; to versify.
Usage Examples
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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Other Usage ExamplesWrite verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
I was born to travel and write verse.
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