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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes: Among men, under the shining sky They say: "Man, to yourself be true!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The hasty trot of the versification, unfit for any other theme, on this betokens well the frightened horse.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret