versing

noun

1. a sequence of words arranged metrically in accordance with some rule or design; single line of poetry
2. 1. metrical writing or speaking, esp. when light or trivial or merely metered and rhymed, but without much serious content or artistic merit
   2. a particular form of poetic composition: free verse, trochaic verse
3. 1. a single metrical composition; poem
   2. a body of poetry, as of a specific writer or period
4. a stanza or similar short subdivision of a metrical composition, sometimes specif. as distinguished from the chorus or refrain
5. any of the single, usually numbered, short divisions of a chapter of the Bible, generally a sentence

transitive verb, intransitive verb versed, versing