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versification

[vur-suh-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌvɜr sə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And the very difficulty of the form is a strong argument in favor of its frequent use by novices in versification.

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




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