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Philip Sidney and Spenser were the first to discover that the hexameter could never take its place in English verse, and they had to endure some opposition and even raillery from Gabriel Harvey, who was especially annoyed at Edmund Spenser's desertion; and had bid him farewell till God or some good angel put him in a better mind.

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  1. noun A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry.
  2. noun A division of a metrical composition, such as a stanza of a poem or hymn.
  3. noun A poem.

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  • The dry writings of a Trutvetter they prefaced with panegyrics in Latin verse, and the Trutvetter would try to imitate their purer style. —  Life of Luther
  • There is a translation of it in English verse, that is little short of the original. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • He breaks off from his narrative of the advance into Transoxania to remind us of some of the loveliest lines in English verse, the ones that close Matthew Arnold's poem "Sohrab and Rustum," where the poet follows the course of the mighty Oxus until: —  Claremont.org
  • (Zechariah 9: 10-13) show that the person referred to in this verse is a military king that would rule "from sea to sea". —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • There has been no greater artist in French verse, as there has been no greater poet; and the main part of the history of poetry in France is the record of a long forgetting of all that Villon found out for himself 1901 CASANOVA AT DUX: AN UNPUBLISHED CHAPTER OF HISTORY I The Memoirs of Casanova, though they have enjoyed the popularity of a bad reputation, have never had justice done to them by serious students of literature, of life, and of history. —  Figures of Several Centuries
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English vers, from Old English fers and from Old French vers, both from Latin versus, from past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Latin versāre; see versatile.

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  1. from Middle English vers, partly, and in the early form fers wholly, from Anglo-Saxon fers, partly from Old French (and F.) vers = Spanish Portuguese Italian verso = D. G. Swedish Danish vers, from Latin versus (plural versus), also vorsus, a furrow, a line, row, in particular a line of writing, and in poetry a verse, literally a turning, turn (hence a turn at the end of a furrow, etc.), from vertere, past participle versus, turn: see verse. Hence verse, v., versicle, versify, etc.
  2. from verse,n.
 

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