7/3/2023 0 Comments Tunesmith verse definition![]() ![]() It forms all or part of: adverse anniversary avert awry controversy converge converse (adj.) "exact opposite " convert diverge divert evert extroversion extrovert gaiter introrse introvert invert inward malversation obverse peevish pervert prose raphe reverberate revert rhabdomancy rhapsody rhombus ribald sinistrorse stalwart subvert tergiversate transverse universe verbena verge (v.1) "tend, incline " vermeil vermicelli vermicular vermiform vermin versatile verse (n.) "poetry " version verst versus vertebra vertex vertigo vervain vortex -ward warp weird worm worry worth (adj.) "significant, valuable, of value " worth (v.) "to come to be " wrangle wrap wrath wreath wrench wrest wrestle wriggle wring wrinkle wrist writhe wrong wroth wry. Proto-Indo-European root forming words meaning "to turn, bend." The Negroes say that in form their old songs usually consist in what they call "Chorus and Verses." The "chorus," a melodic refrain sung by all, opens the song then follows a verse sung as a solo, in free recitative the chorus is repeated then another verse chorus again -and so on until the chorus, sung for the last time, ends the song. 1300 as the non-repeating part of a modern song (between repetitions of the chorus) by 1918. Meaning "metrical composition" is recorded from c. The English New Testament first was divided fully into verses in the Geneva version (1550s). Late Old English (replacing Old English fers, an early West Germanic borrowing directly from Latin), "line or section of a psalm or canticle," later "line of poetry" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French and Old French vers "line of verse rhyme, song," from Latin versus "a line, row, line of verse, line of writing," from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend." The metaphor is of plowing, of "turning" from one line to another ( vertere = "to turn") as a plowman does. ![]()
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