versification

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When Stoner asks about Anglo-Saxon versification, Walker responds with talk of “sensibility.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

He's clearly paid a great deal of detailed attention to how the narrative and the interplay of character is to work – vital in Shakespeare films that can easily get bogged down in versification.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2011

Their sole derivation Is versification; This wealth is the gift of the Muse.

From Time Magazine Archive

His genius for versification found outlet in his private life by innumerable informal limericks.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is the simplest form of poetical composition, and the novice in the craft of versification will not find it difficult to attain in it, after a few attempts, a fair measure of success.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce