verse vs genre

verse and genre both are nouns.

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

As nouns, genre is a hypernym of verse; that is, genre is a word with a broader meaning than verse:

Other hypernyms of verse include literary genre, writing style.

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

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