Poem

• verse

  A line of metrical text.

• line of poetry

  A single line of words in a poem.

Also contains

• header

  A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed...

• speech

  Words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech".

• by-line

  A line giving the name of the writer of a story or article.

• sound bite

  A very short speech; usually on radio or television.

• bottom line

  The last line in an audit; the line that shows profit or loss.

• opening line

  The first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story).

• dateline

  A line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news...

• orphan

  The first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column.

• punch line

  The point of a joke or humorous story.