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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Verse n.
 1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
 Note:Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in each.  A verse of twelve syllables is called an Alexandrine.  Two or more verses form a stanza or strophe.
 2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
 Such prompt eloquence
 Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.   --Milton.
    Virtue was taught in verse.   --Prior.
    Verse embalms virtue.   --Donne.
 3. A short division of any composition.  Specifically: --
 (a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
 Note:Although this use of verse is common, it is objectionable, because not always distinguishable from the stricter use in the sense of a line.
 (b) Script. One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
 Note:The author of the division of the Old Testament into verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551.
 (c) Mus. A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
 4. A piece of poetry.  “This verse be thine.”
 Blank verse, poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.
 Heroic verse. See under Heroic.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 He·ro·ic a.
 1. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
 2. Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
 3. Sculpture & Painting Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
 Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
 Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry.
 Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies Med., treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case.
 Heroic verse Pros., the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.
 Syn: -- Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 heroic verse
      n : a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated
          themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter [syn: heroic
          meter, heroic]