Verse may refer to:

Poetry

Verse (poetry) A verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. However, verse has come to represent any grouping of lines in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas. Verse in the uncountable ...

, a line or lines in a poetic composition *

Blank verse Blank verse is poetry written with regular metre (poetry), metrical but rhyme, unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th cen ...

, a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme *

Free verse Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free ...

, a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but still recognized as poetry * ''Versed'' (poetry collection), 2009 collection of poetry by Rae Armantrout * ''Verse'', an international poetry journal with Henry Hart (author) as founding editor

Religion

Chapters and verses of the Bible Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible. Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but th ...

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

Music

Verse (band) Verse was an American hardcore punk band from Providence, Rhode Island. They released three full-length albums and an EP on Rivalry and Bridge 9 Records and conducted a number of full U.S. tours. The band broke up in 2009, but reformed in Decem ...

, a hardcore punk band * Verse (rapper) (b. 1986), British hip hop artist *

Verse (popular music) Verse may refer to: Poetry * Verse (poetry), a line or lines in a poetic composition * Blank verse, a type of poetry having regular meter but no rhyme * Free verse, a type of poetry written without the use of strict meter or rhyme, but still re ...

, roughly corresponds to a poetic stanza * ''Verses'' (album), a 1987 album by jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney * ''Verses (Apallut)'', a 2001 album by the Alaskan group

Pamyua Pamyua ( ); literally: "its tail" in Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik from ''pamyuq'' "tail of animal or kayak; chorus of song; upper stern-piece of kayak") is a Yup'ik-Inuit musical group from Anchorage, Alaska, Anchorage in Alaska. Ove ...

* ''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 Pendulum is an Australian electronic rock band founded in 2002. Pendulum originally formed in the city of Perth, Western Australia, by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding. The band was later expanded to include members Ben M ...

(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 ''Toy World'' is the second demo album by the English rock band Cardiacs (including '' The Obvious Identity'', released on cassette the previous year under the band name "Cardiac Arrest"). The cassette is a mixture of older songs by the earli ...

Other uses

Jared Verse Jared Verse (born November 4, 2000) is an American professional football linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Albany Great Danes and Florida State Seminoles. Verse was the 2 ...

(born 2000), American football player * ''Verse'' (film), a 2009 Bolivian film *

Verse protocol Verse is a networking protocol allowing real-time communication between computer graphics software. For example, several architects can build a house in the same virtual environment using their own computers, even if they are using different soft ...

, 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 B C * Calenberger Bach * Casumer Bach * ...

, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Verse (programming language) Verse is a static typed object-oriented programming language created by Epic Games. It was released alongside UEFN in March 2023 and was authored by a team of well-known programmers led by Simon Peyton Jones, and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. ...

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functional logic programming Functional logic programming is the combination, in a single programming language, of the paradigms of functional programming and logic programming.Antoy, Sergio, and Michael Hanus.Functional logic programming" Commun. ACM 53.4 (2010): 74–85. Thi ...

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Epic Games Epic Games, Inc. is an American Video game developer, video game and software development, software developer and video game publisher, publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney (game developer), Tim Sween ...