Verse may refer to:

Poetry

Verse Verse may refer to: Poetry * Verse, an occasional synonym for poetry * Verse, a metrical structure, a stanza * Blank verse, a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme * Free verse, a type of poetry written without the use of strict me ...

, an occasional synonym for

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, a metrical structure, a

stanza In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian language, Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or Indentation (typesetting), indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme scheme, rhyme and ...

* Blank verse, a type of poetry having regular meter but no

rhyme A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic ...

* Free verse, a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but still recognized as poetry * ''

Versed ''Versed'' is a book of poetry written by Rae Armantrout and published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009 (see 2009 in poetry). It won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry after be ...

'', 2009 collection of poetry by

Rae Armantrout Rae Armantrout (born April 13, 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the Univers ...

* ''Verse'', an international poetry journal with

Henry Hart (author) Henry Hart (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. In addition to three books of poetry (''The Ghost Ship'' (1990), ''The Rooster Mask'' (1998), and ''Background Radiation'' ...

as founding editor

Religion

* Chapters and verses of the Bible * Ayah, one of the 6,236 verses found in the Qur'an

Music

* Verse (band), a hardcore punk band * Verse (rapper) (b. 1986), British hip hop artist * Verse (popular music), roughly corresponds to a poetic stanza * Verse-chorus form, a musical form common in popular music where the chorus is highlighted * ''Verses'' (album), a 1987 album by jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney * ''Verses (Apallut)'', a 2001 album by the Alaskan group Pamyua * ''Verse'', a 2002 album by

Patricia Barber Patricia Barber (born November 8, 1955) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and pianist. Biography Barber's father Floyd was a jazz saxophonist who played with Bud Freeman and Glenn Miller. She played saxophone and piano from a young a ...

* Ben Mount (born 1977), also known as The Verse or MC Verse, British rapper, producer and record label owner * "Verses", a commonly used unofficial title for a studio outtake by Cardiacs included on '' Toy World''

Other uses

* Jared Verse, American football player * ''Verse'' (film), a 2009 Bolivian film * Verse protocol, a networking protocol allowing real-time communication between computer graphics software *

Verse (river) Verse is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Lenne near Werdohl. See also *List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia A list of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: A * Aa, left tributary of the Möhne * Aa, le ...

, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany