Sentence examples for verse line from inspiring English sources
"verse line" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It refers to a line of text in a poem or song that follows a specific structure, such as a rhyme scheme or meter. Example: "The first verse line of the poem sets the tone for the entire piece, with its use of rich imagery and a consistent iambic pentameter."
"To go in and cut pauses if they came in the middle of a verse line and then move them to the end of the verse line".
The elegiac couplet of hexameter and pentameter (verse line of five feet) was taken over by Catullus, who broke with tradition by filling elegy with personal emotion.
Archilochus of Paros, of the 7th century bc, was the earliest Greek poet to employ the forms of elegy (in which the epic verse line alternated with a shorter line) and of personal lyric poetry.
On the contrary, O'Brien is an assured technician who excels at any line length (including the prose poem), but whose favorite structure is the relatively short, steeply enjambed free verse line first perfected by William Carlos Williams.
The collection is headed by 57 "short poems," ranging in length between 5 and 25 lines (number X, an exception, has 34) in assorted metres, of which, however, 51 are either hendecasyllabic that is, having a verse line of 11 syllables (40 such)—or iambic basically of alternate short and long syllables (11).
The otherworldly, ecstatic atmosphere of the early lyrics has cleared, and the poems in Responsibilities: Poems and a Play (1914) show a tightening and hardening of his verse line, a more sparse and resonant imagery, and a new directness with which Yeats confronts reality and its imperfections.
Most poems here involve long, loping free verse lines and occasional haiku-like fragments.
In his reverberating brand of free verse, lines hover in the air like pulses of distant starlight, or humming throws from deep right field to home plate.
I love the jumble of beats and noises that accompanies the jazzy verse lines of Cynical and the gongs and cymbals on the paranoid, defiant 422.
In Mehrotra's rendering, the verse lines are lean and swift-flowing, a tightly regulated free verse that seldom makes use of more than two or three stresses per line.
The collection is completed by 48 "epigrams" written in the elegiac distich, or pair of verse lines, and extending between 2 and 12 lines, a limit exceeded only by two poems, one of 26 lines and the other of 16.
