versification
Example Sentences
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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
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
For ten years smart young women have been trying to rival with their versification Edna St. Vincent Millay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not only is a facility for versification common amongst them, but they have some names which the real halo adorns.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
