### Clue: Piece of verse a peasant composed (8)
### Answer: ANAPAEST 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Piece of verse
  **Anagram of**(composed) A PEASANT 
Answer:   A foot in poetry of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter.  That's the best explanation I can give, being no prosodist myself.