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Vers De Société
Sophisticated light verse of a kind appealing to the gentry. Poets
writing in this vein include Charles Stuart Calverley, Frederick Locker
Lampson, and John Betjeman.
Vers Libre
See free verse.
Verse
A single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to
prose).
Verse Paragraph
A group of verse lines that make up a discourse unit, the first verse of
which is sometimes indented, like a paragraph in prose.
Verset
A short verse, especially one from a sacred book.
Versicle
A little verse; also, a short passage said or sung by a leader in public
worship and followed by a response from the people.
Versification
The system of rhyme and meter in poetry.
Versifier
A writer of verse, often applied to a writer of light or inferior verse.
Victorian
Verse written in the reign of Victoria, from 1837 to 1903.
Villanelle
An Italian verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas (tercets) and
a final quatrain, possessing only two rhymes, repeating the first and
third lines of the first stanza alternately in the following stanzas, and
combining those two refrain lines into the final couplet in the quatrain.
Examples are W. E. Henley's "A Dainty Thing's the Villanelle," John
Davidson's "Battle," Oscar Wilde's "Theocritus," Eugene O'Neill's
"Villanelle of Ye Young Poet's First Villanelle to his Ladye and Ye
Difficulties Thereof," E. A. Robinson's "The House on the Hill," and
Dylan Thomas' "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night."
Virelai Ancien
The virelai ancien originated in Middle Ages France. It consists of a
tercet of two long lines and one short line rhyming aab to create the
foundation for the stanza. Each stanza can have as many tercets as
the poet wishes. The non-rhymed lines become the rhyming lines of the
following stanza. A sample rhyme scheme would be aabaab bbcbbc
ccdccd ddadda.
Virelai Nouveau
The virelai nouveau is a rare and difficult form to use that’s main
characteristic uses a double refrain on only two rhymes. The poem
begins with a couplet and these two lines become the repeating refrain
through the alternating stanzas. The poem ends with an envoi and the
last two lines are the opening couplet in reversed order. There is no
standard of lines per stanza or pattern of rhymes.
Virelay
A medieval French poetic form, consisting of short lines in stanzas with
only two rhymes, where the final rhyme of one stanza becomes the
main rhyme of the next.
Visual Poetry
Poetry arranged in such a manner that its visual appearance has an
elevated significance of its own, thus achieving in an equivalence (or
even more) between the sight and sound of the poem.
Voice
The agent or agency who is speaking throughout a poem.
Voiced and Unvoiced
Consonants are voiced when the vocal cords move (/b/) and unvoiced
when they remain still (/p/).
Volta
The place at which a distinct turn of thought occurs. The term is most
commonly used for the characteristic transition point in a sonnet, as
between the octave and sestet of a Petrarchan sonnet.
Vowel Rhyme
See Assonance.
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