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The concept of verse called one of the most common forms with which they are usually briefly divide the chapters of some books, especially those that have a religious content, the most emblematic case being the Bible.

In the particular case of the Bible, those who have read it, without a doubt, recognize this particular division above all things, where the division into phrases or segmented phrases are a trademark in each of its chapters. There are even some verses so widespread by religion that they knew how to take on a life of their own beyond the Bible.
In the book from Genesis for example, verse 1: 1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

In the book of Koran, which as we know is the text most relevant sacred at the behest of the religion of the Islam, there is also the division into verses within each chapter. There they are specifically named as verses and there are more than six thousand two hundred. The ayah is the minor division of the azora or chapters, which in this case are 114.

But not only to religious texts is the use of the term verse circumscribed, but also in the literature in general we can meet him.

More precisely, the meter, which is the art that deals exclusively with the rhythm, the measure, the structure and the combination of the verses of a poem, defines the verse as that verse that has an unfixed extension, does not have accentuation, does not follow any type of rhyme and will not have a fixed metric count.
It should be noted that these types of verses are very common in the poetry modern.

Without going too far in time, the movementartistic and literary dating from the twenties of the last century, known asSurrealism, He knew how to use the verses as a distinctive characteristic of his poems.
The call Generation of 27 (Rubén Darío, José Martí, among others) , which was characterized by Vanguard in terms of literary creation, they were cultists of the verse because it allowed them to free themselves from the typical limits proposed by the meter.