genre vs verse

genre and verse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
genre	Yes	No	No	No
verse	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, verse is a hyponym of genre; that is, verse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than genre:

Other hyponyms of genre include drama, prose, form, poesy, poetry, satire, steampunk.

genre (noun)	verse (noun)
a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique	a piece of poetry
a kind of literary or artistic work	a line of metrical text
a style of expressing yourself in writing	literature in metrical form

genre (verb)	verse (verb)
	familiarize through thorough study or experience
	compose verses or put into verse