▸ noun:  A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
▸ noun:  Poetic form in general.
▸ noun:  One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
▸ noun:  A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
▸ noun:  (music) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To compose verses.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To tell in verse, or poetry.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) to educate about, to teach about.
▸ verb:  (colloquial, sometimes proscribed) To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game.poetry, rhyme, poesy, poetize, versify, verse line, stanza, quatrain, surah, strophe, more...

lyric form,  short poem,  poetic stanza,  lines of a poem,  alternate lines


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