sacred verse
Religious poetic text
Sacred verse is religious text in poetic form—hymns, psalms, scriptural poetry, or liturgical chants.
The phrase emphasizes both the holy status of the content and its metrical or rhythmic structure: The congregation chanted the sacred verses, He memorized sacred verse from the Quran.
Distinguished from prose scripture by its formal, often musical qualities.
- psalmSacred scriptural song
- chantRepetitive rhythmic phrase
- hymnReligious song of praise
- canticleScriptural text sung devotionally
- gregorian chantMonophonic sacred vocal tradition
sutra · call and response · prayer · hail mary · doxology · Veda · holy writ · antiphon · litany · invocation · mantra · gradual · lamentation · catechism · prophecy · Kyrie · Quran · divine word
religious vs. secular content
sacred versepopular song
Widely played tune
love poetry · folk ballad · drinking song · commercial jingle · nursery rhyme