verse form

1. 1.

   a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

   Synonymspoem

   Broaderliterary composition

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   Partsline of poetrycantoversestanzapoetic rhythmrhyme

Questions about verse form

What does verse form mean?

verse form means "a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines".

What is another word for verse form?

Close synonyms include poem. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verse form a common word?

verse form is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.