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What is the difference between Verse and Prose?

Asked by Elena Sheldon, Last updated: Mar 16, 2024

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Malcolm Carneal

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Answered Mar 24, 2020

Prose is might be called "normal language" - it's what we use in a day speech. It consists of sentences and paragraphs, and is what most novels and contemporary are written in. Verse also can be called poetry - it tends to possess a daily rhythm, and is split into "stanzas" instead of paragraphs. Verse can sometimes rhyme.

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Many of Shakespeare's plays are written during a mixture of verse and prose, often for very different effects. for instance , his lower-status characters often speak in prose, also as comedic characters. Shakespeare often reserves verse for lofty subjects like love, and for his higher-born characters. Once you've got learned the difference between verse and prose, and the way to differentiate these two forms, i will be able to teach you more about the sorts of verse, particularly iambic pentameter, also referred to as poem.

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