Well, I've just read something that was news to me and showed, once again, how sadly gapped has been my sometimes rocky education. Read below what I read and let me know whether you were taught this and whether you apply the rule consistently. It is great fun learning distinctions:

Verse
Verse has two meanings in literary discussions, neither of which is the most familiar use outside English departments.
Although "verse" is used in the real world to name a group of lines in a song (as in "Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Verse, Chorus"), in poetry it means "single line." A group of verses is called a stanza or a verse paragraph. You'll impress English teachers by using the terms precisely.

http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/verse.html


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