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

Whether he sees the work as a brilliant display of versification or as the story of man's fall from grace, the poem is a sacred text, the source of his intellectual or moral faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

And that judgment was based upon the versification of a few Psalms by the old man on a sick bed.

From Bacon and Shakspere by Burr, William Henry