| responsory |
a responsive verse or set of verses spoken or sung in a church service. |
| rhyme |
a similarity or identity in the sounds at the ends of two or more words or lines of verse. [5/9 definitions] |
| rhymester |
a poet of inferior or light verse. |
| run-on |
of or designating a line of verse whose sense is completed in the next line. [1/3 definitions] |
| Sapphic |
designating or pertaining to certain meters or verse forms used by or named for Sappho. [1/3 definitions] |
| scan |
to read (verse) for metrical rhythm or patterns. [3/10 definitions] |
| scansion |
the analysis of the metrical structure and patterns of verse, or the way in which a particular verse scans. |
| song |
a lyrical verse; poetry. [1/4 definitions] |
| stich |
a single line or verse, esp. of poetry. |
| stichomythia |
in ancient Greek drama, a dialogue between two characters usu. speaking alternating lines of verse. |
| terza rima |
a three-line Italian verse form, the second line of each stanza rhyming with the first and third lines of the following stanza. |
| tetrameter |
a line of verse that contains four metrical feet. [2/3 definitions] |
| trimeter |
a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet. [1/2 definitions] |
| triplet |
a verse unit of three lines. [1/4 definitions] |
| tristich |
a verse unit, poem, or stanza of three lines; triplet. |
| versicle |
a short verse. [2 definitions] |
| versification |
the act or art of making verse. [3/4 definitions] |
| versify |
to write about (a subject) in verse form. [3 definitions] |
| vers libre |
see "free verse." |
| virgule |
a mark (/) used to divide dates or fractions, to represent "per," or to divide verse lines; slash; solidus. [1/2 definitions] |