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
Eliot himself, one of his play's harshest critics, has deplored its not fusing Greek story with modern one, its exalting "versification at the expense of plot and character."
From Time Magazine Archive
The style, except in the parts written for the Masks, is coarse and slovenly, the versification hasty, the language diffuse, commonplace, and often incorrect.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
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