versification
/ˌvɜrsəfəˈkeɪʃən/
noun
- The art or practice of writing poetry, especially in terms of meter, rhyme, and structure.
- In the workshop, students studied the versification of Shakespeare's plays.
- His textbook on versification explains different rhyme schemes and stanza forms.
- The poet's mastery of versification made her sonnets flow beautifully.
- A particular style or system of poetic meter and rhyme.
- The versification of this epic poem follows a strict dactylic hexameter.
- Modern versification often breaks traditional rules of meter.
- She compared the versification of two different translations of the same poem.