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Literary notes about verse (AI summary)

In literature, the term "verse" is employed as both a refined mode of expression and a structural unit that defines poetic form. It encapsulates the idea of measured, rhythmic language—whether celebrating timeless passion, as in immortal sonnets where love is sustained forever in verse [1], or in grand narratives that depend on the disciplined patterns of hexameter to evoke heroic or religious fervor [2]. Verse also bridges language and music, as lines may be composed to accompany a melody or capture the cadence of spoken word in dramatic settings [3]. Authors have contrasted verse with prose to highlight a special formal quality, evident when inscriptions, odes, or satirical lines are crafted to adhere to precise metrical rules [4][5]. This multifaceted use of verse demonstrates its enduring role in enriching literary traditions across diverse genres.
  1. Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
    — from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  2. 31 Moses also composed a song unto God, containing his praises, and a thanksgiving for his kindness, in hexameter verse.
    — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
  3. She took up the babe and chanted over it a series of verses, and each verse had its own melody.
    — from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz
  4. By this theory an iambic verse becomes trochaic with anacrusis, an anapaestic verse dactylic with anacrusis, &c.
    — from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
  5. DE GUICHE: But when a verse approves itself to him
    — from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

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