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
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As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes: Among men, under the shining sky They say: "Man, to yourself be true!"
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is a restraint about the versification and the colour of the words that strikes the right chord and tunes the lyre to a subdued note.
From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell