one section of a poem, song, or hymn, marked off by a particular set of rhymes or assonances and, when printed, generally separated from the preceding and following sections by a space; = stanza
metrical language or writing distinguished from poetry, e.g. by its lower level of intensity
archaic a line of metrical writing
poetry, or the writing of poetry
a poem
a body of poetry, e.g. of a period or country
Elizabethan verse
metrical language or writing distinguished from poetry, e.g. by its lower level of intensity, or an example of this
any of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided
[Middle English vers via French from Latin versus turning of a plough, furrow, line of verse, from vertere to turn]