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versification

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The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

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Gavin Douglas, set on a particular labour, with his mind full of Latin quantitative metre, attains a robuster versification than you are likely to find in Chaucer...the texture of Gavin's verse is stronger, the resilience greater. Gavin Douglas

In the history of versification did anyone ever juggle so wildly well with iambics, sapphics, dactylics, anapestics, and all the rest? He fabricated verses most ingeniously, most enthusiastically. His virtuosity is amazing. Almost every line he wrote was a tour de force. Ausonius

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope. Samuel Johnson

Chaucer's versification suggests that the final -e is sometimes to be vocalised, and sometimes to be silent; however, this remains a point on which there is disagreement. Source: Internet

His main characters are monsters, and stand out in glaring contrast to the regularity of the plays' structure and versification. Source: Internet

The versification became more pedantic; the romantic and magical episodes were excised; the heavier elements of the plot underwent a dull rhetorical development. Source: Internet

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