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
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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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
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There is a certain rawness of style and versification which—' 'That's right,' interrupted Raymond; 'I know just what you are going to say.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.