The phrase "long verse" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a line of poetry that is longer than the average length. Example: "The poet wrote a long verse to express his deep emotions."
The Vision of Sir Launfal, long verse parable by James Russell Lowell, published in 1848.
And there was a whole long verse after that and the chorus.
Probably his best-known poetic work was "Gunsight" (New York University Press), a long verse narrative first published in 1962 and the outcome of nearly two decades of intermittent work.
All the Proverbes in the English Tongue (1549) and collections of epigrams, published together as John Heywoodes Woorkes in 1562; ballads, among them "The Willow Garland" sung by Desdemona in Othello; and a long verse allegory, The Spider and the Flie (1556).
The collections Lives (1972), The Snow Party (1975), Courtyards in Delft (1981) and Antarctica (1985) were followed by a period of silence until the chapbook The Yaddo Letter in 1992, then the long verse sequences The Hudson Letter (1995) and The Yellow Book (1997).
It is with New Year Letter (1940), a long verse letter in couplets, that one begins, perhaps, to become really irritated by Auden's pomposity, by the spiritual wrangling and the grand gestures: "Under the familiar weight / Of winter, conscience and the State, / In loose formations of good cheer, / Love, language, loneliness and fear".
Constantine Phipps's What You Want (Quercus) is unlike any other book published this year, indeed this century: a long verse-novel in rhyming couplets, about, as its subtitle says, "the pursuit of happiness".
The most disappointing omission is "An Essay on Censorship", Burgess's long verse-letter to Salman Rushdie (written immediately after the 1989 fatwa), a spirited imitation of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man.
Britten's opera Peter Grimes is based on a single chapter of Crabbe's long verse-narrative, The Borough, and as part of the composer's centenary celebrations will be performed three times next week on the beach in Aldeburgh, the Suffolk town where Crabbe grew up and which Britten made his home.
A massive ode to our collective humanity, it runs for nine long verses and more than eighteen minutes: that's three times as long as "Like a Rolling Stone" and longer even than "Sister Ray".
Songs ranged in style from the succinct verses or couplets of central Australia and the Great Sandy Desert, which were made up of three, four, or more words repeated in linked sequences, to the more elaborate songs of northeastern Arnhem Land, which were long verses building up complex word pictures through symbolic allusion and imagery.
