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

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

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

Take "Paradise Lost," a work so glorious for the loftiness of its imagination, and the extent of its learning, and the beauty of its illustrations, and the harmony of its versification!

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet