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

For ten years smart young women have been trying to rival with their versification Edna St. Vincent Millay.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of them are in iambic pentameters, and are for the greater part sextets in form; but though the versification is occasionally smooth, these compositions do little credit to the Muse who inspired them.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John