versification

noun

Definition of versificationnext
as in poetry

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Recent Examples of versification Slathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did. — 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for versification
  1. poetry
  2. poesy
  3. poem
  4. minstrelsy
  5. rhyme
  6. lyric
  7. free verse
  8. blank verse
Noun
  • Much of Abdullah’s work draws inspiration from the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, capturing surreal, dreamlike scenes in which her figures go about their lives in flooding rooms, already ankle-deep.
    — Omnia Saed, ARTnews.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Or the enduring image of the left fielder swooping two rows into the stands in Chicago for a catch, and the poetry of him throwing out 102 runners who shouldn’t have dared him.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of poetry
Noun
  • Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.
    — ALEXIS SOLOSKI, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
Definition of poesy
Noun
  • These poems display a range of stances when encountering social extremes.
    — Alissa Quart, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Premiering on Thursday, March 27, Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure details the 10-year hunt to find treasure buried by 80-year-old Forrest Fenn in the Rocky Mountains — and the cryptic 24-line poem that was the key to finding the ultimate prize.
    — Abigail Adams, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of poem
Noun
  • Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Henry counted among her influences American minstrelsy, European clowning traditions, and her own collection of African masks.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of minstrelsy
Noun
  • His plucky nickname—born from the ‘Loosey-goosey’ rhyme and shared with his father—is less of a hand-me-down and more of a savvy branding decision.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Especially since Venus will retrograde in Aries next month for the first time since spring 2017 which may make this time rhyme with that time.
    — Colin Bedell, Them, 31 Jan. 2025
Definition of rhyme
Noun
  • While the lyrics contend with this idea in terms of romantic relationships, the music video, directed by Jake Schreier, appears to tackle it from the perspective of a career in the entertainment industry.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves — especially when Kacey was coming up, her songwriting opened the door for conversational, universal lyrics in country music.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of lyric
Noun
  • The award-winning work, told through a mix of free verse and haiku, offers a poignant and nuanced look at a young person growing up Black in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, finding herself through the art of writing.
    — The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Here are some of Robert Frost’s insights into how poetry works its magic: Writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2024
Definition of free verse
Noun
  • Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.
    — Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
Definition of blank verse

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