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versification

[vur-suh-fi-key-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

My poetic possibilities, however, rested more upon aspiration than inspiration, and my craving for versification was but a passing phase of my literary activities.

From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.




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