leed vs verse

leed

noun
  • A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow. 

  • A constant or repeated line or verse; theme. 

  • Patter; rigmarole. 

  • The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction. 

  • Language; tongue. 

  • A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language). 

verse

noun
  • Poetic form in general. 

  • A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. 

  • One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. 

  • A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. 

  • A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.) 

verb
  • to educate about, to teach about. 

  • To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game. 

  • To tell in verse, or poetry. 

How often have the words leed and verse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )