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VERSE FORM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
Synonyms:
poem; verse form
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("verse form" is a kind of...):
literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)
Meronyms (parts of "verse form"):
poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern ((prosody) a system of versification)
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))
verse; verse line (a line of metrical text)
canto (a major division of a long poem)
line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "verse form"):
abecedarius (a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order)
Alcaic; Alcaic verse (verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus)
ballad; lay (a narrative poem of popular origin)
ballade (a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy)
blank verse (unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter))
elegy; lament (a mournful poem; a lament for the dead)
epic; epic poem; epos; heroic poem (a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds)
free verse; vers libre (unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern)
haiku (an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines)
lyric; lyric poem (a short poem of songlike quality)
rondeau; rondel (a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas)
sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)
tanka (a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables)
terza rima (a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.)
rhyme; verse (a piece of poetry)
versicle (a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation)
