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

Their sole derivation Is versification; This wealth is the gift of the Muse.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But, owing to the fact that he generally employed antiquated versification and very erudite language, his poems failed to reach the people or to find a place in the services of the church.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various