versification
noun
ver·si·fi·ca·tion
ˌvər-sə-fə-ˈkā-shən 
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Slathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did.
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Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
But this is bad advice, as showy and even showoffy rhymes are one of the special glories of English versification.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
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Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
But this is bad advice, as showy and even showoffy rhymes are one of the special glories of English versification.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
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“Versification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/versification. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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versification
noun
ver·si·fi·ca·tion
ˌvər-sə-fə-ˈkā-shən
: the making of verses
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