verse
Definitions
Writing arranged with a rhythm and often rhyme; poetry.
韵文，诗。
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song; a stanza.
（诗或歌的）一节，诗节。
A numbered subdivision of a chapter in the Bible.
（圣经的）节。
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedFrom Latin versus (a turning), the past participle of vertere. A verse is a 'turn' — and the image is the plow. A farmer plowing a field turns the ox at the end of each furrow; Latin called that turn a versus. Poets borrowed the word: a line of poetry 'turns' back at the margin to begin the next, just like the plow.
Root vers still carries 91 more wordsWhy It Means This
Verse is one of the family's most poetic surprises. The same versus that gave 'reverse' and 'version' originally named the turn of an ox-plow at the end of a furrow. Poetry, with its lines that break and turn back at the margin, looked just like a plowed field — so a line of poetry became a versus, and English inherited verse. The Biblical 'verse' (a numbered line) is the same idea: a single turn of the text.
Common Collocations
- 1.free verse自由诗
- 2.blank verse无韵诗
- 3.opening verse开篇诗节
- 4.verse and chorus主歌与副歌
Example Sentences
- 1.
The poem is written in free verse with no fixed rhyme.
- 2.
Everyone joined in for the final verse of the song.
- 3.
She quoted a verse from the Bible.