Ballad
Ballad noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.
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Verses and ballad are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Verses" with "Ballad", this nouns are similar.
Verses
Ballad and verses are semantically related in written composition topic. You can use "Ballad" instead a noun "Verses".
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- Steve Perry's solo hit "Oh Sherrie" alternates between power ballad-ish verses and a more uptempo chorus, but somehow still gets airplay on "Soft Hits" stations.
Source: Power Ballad - A very noteworthy example is "Baby", a song that appears to be an empowering ballad for vegetarians at the start... And then goes on for several verses with suggestions to eat people, instead of animals.
Source: Lyrical Dissonance / Music - Then the first three verses were included in a school song book, and it spread as a patriotic ballad as a stealth torpedo, which exploded when Pete Seeger sang all the verses, as Woody wrote them, at Barack Obama's inauguration concert in 2009.
Source: Protest Song
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