Verbs are harder to talk about than nouns or adjectives. Especially with the most common verbs, their uses range so widely that differences in distribution are not easily accounted for. You have to dig deeper and look at the nouns and prepositions that give them their distinctive meanings. But that is a task for a later phase.

The most obvious point about the table of verbs below is that strong prose markers outnumber strong verse markers by a margin of 4:1 and consist of ubiquitous verbs like 'say', 'go', 'come' , 'tell'. The strong verse markers are 'die' and 'bear', which makes you wonder what it is that is borne or born in verse as opposed to prose.

The groupings in the table are explained in the blog entry on conjunctions.