noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blank verse
free verse
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blank
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Coleridge had developed an apparently relaxed, but in fact extremely clever style of blank verse .
free
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Both have the rhythms that one may associate with free verse poetry, yet few would call these poems.
■ NOUN
form
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Heroic couplets, the typical verse form of the Augustan age, were brought to perfection by Alexander Pope.
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I will teach you the modes, the verse form .
■ VERB
quote
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He just quoted the verses , smiled, and said they would bring him great success.
read
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Every morning we were read a verse from the Bible and had to remember it by heart.
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As we read those verses , two thousand years on, can we echo Paul's words?
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And there I would read the secret verses .
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I find my listening springs best out of reading a few verses from Scripture.
recite
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Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.
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A more expensive model recites a different Koranic verse at each hour.
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I would like the Imam Sahib to recite the opening verses of the Koran.
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They recite the verse earnestly and proudly.
sing
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It is a build-up song and each person sings a verse with everybody joining in the relevant parts.
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If I started to sing that verse Janir would sit up in bed and press his hand across my mouth.
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Together they sing the first verse .
speak
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Because he spoke riddles in verse , or because he didn't believe the story of Flodden?
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This camp-follower, rogue turned soldier about to become beggar, has no right to speak in verse .
write
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Eddie wrote light verse and became editor of Punch.
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She taught me for my first three years of school by writing verses on a wooden tablet covered with clay.
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Ermold wrote his verse biography of Louis to win back imperial favour.
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The play is written in verse , and several sections were intended to be sung.
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These stories are often written in verse , because they are poetry.
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Ottavio Rinuccini, who had written verses for the ladies of Ferrara, was one of the poets.
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And I think that Paul has a smile on his face as he writes that verse .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deathless prose/verse/lines etc
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It won't be deathless prose, but it should be a grammatical and effective piece of writing.
give/quote sb chapter and verse
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She can give him chapter and verse on Finance Acts and other current legislation, and is rigorous in keeping up to date.
nonsense poems/verse/rhymes
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Which artist was famous for his nonsense rhymes? 09.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I only know the words to the first verse .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A man's verses were his title deeds to territory.
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And I could turn out imitative verse which expressed similar sentiments.
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And the verse is accordingly irregular and gnarled and yet sappy, far more like growing timber than like steel rails.
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Had Leapor survived she might have burned some of her unpublished verses as she did her juvenilia.
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His knowledge was real, and he documented it chapter and verse .
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Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.
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Their craftsmanship makes it clear that he took the business of composing verse and music very seriously indeed.
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These words echo the fist verse of Isaiah 42 1, the Song of the Servant and also Psalm 2 verse7.