The word 'verses' is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used as a noun and can refer to a stanza or group of lines in a poem, a section of a song, or a division in the Bible or other religious texts. Example: The last two verses of the song were my favorite because they had a powerful and uplifting message.
The satirical poet Dmitry Bykov even penned verses comparing the effects of war, propaganda and tub-thumping patriotism on the Russian currency and a penis: as the latter gets harder and more excited with Russia's conquests, the former falls to new lows.
Earl Sweatshirt: I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside Moody and introspective rap verses over jittery, self-produced beats on the Odd Future crew member's latest.
Rumours of Abdullah's death circulated on social media before Saudi TV began broadcasting Qur'anic verses – often a sign of bad news – and the announcement was made.
It served me well standing on the side of countless wet hillsides, and I wonder whether the mystical powers of tea, like the great verses of Homer, are somehow passed down through the generations.
Or 20 verses on their earth-shattering memories of the boarding school dormitory, and the epic tug-of-love between Matron and Teddy.
Blank Space is her bunny-boiler anthem where she doesn't entirely convince us she's driven insane by lust into courting a series of players – and its minimalist verses make for a rather tempered, non-bombastic opener.
But if they are verses from a bible, it's Stephen Crane's own revisionist bible of scepticism.
It's hard to imagine how these creative and historically relevant verses dumbed down into 'knock knock' jokes.
"But the Punch annual also carried trivial little verses about things that were supposed to be funny, such as modern art.
It's telling that besides Gin And Juice, Drop It Like It's Hot and Who Am I? (What's My Name?), his most crowd-pleasing moments are all feature verses and covers – Katy Perry's California Gurls, Calvin Harris Feell So Close, House Of Pain's Jump Around.
A few of her early verses appeared in her university magazine in Bristol, but Clapp was surprised to find written evidence of her friend's youthful pledge to become a serious poet who would bring imaginative freedom to verse.
