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Recent Examples of versification
Slathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did.
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Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
But this is bad advice, as showy and even showoffy rhymes are one of the special glories of English versification.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.
—Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
But this is bad advice, as showy and even showoffy rhymes are one of the special glories of English versification.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for versification
Noun
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Yet another was a request from a fan of classical Chinese poetry to translate several poems and set them to original tunes.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
29 Mar. 2025
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During his lifetime, O’Hara published five books of poetry and contributed to numerous literary magazines.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Mar. 2025
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Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion.—
Katie Ward Beim-Esche,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Mar. 2018
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.—
ALEXIS SOLOSKI,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2017
Noun
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Believing his prognosis was terminal, Fenn originally planned to write the puzzle poem, hide the treasure, and eventually hike back out to that same location and take his own life, hoping someone would one day discover the riches that remained at his final resting spot.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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The private, invite-only club is rumored to have gotten its name from an Alfred Tennyson poem of the same name meaning that the club is open all hours and the conversation flows forever, the City Journal reported in 1992.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Oct. 2024
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Henry counted among her influences American minstrelsy, European clowning traditions, and her own collection of African masks.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
22 Oct. 2024
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Why wouldn’t history repeat, or at least rhyme, and reward investors with another double or better?—
Brett Owens,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Greedo inquires on the status of a potential linkup on this syrupy rap ballad, as the West Coast rep drops rhymes about riding with heavy artillery while accompanied by a romantic companions.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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While the lyrics contend with this idea in terms of romantic relationships, the music video, directed by Jake Schreier, appears to tackle it from the perspective of a career in the entertainment industry.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves — especially when Kacey was coming up, her songwriting opened the door for conversational, universal lyrics in country music.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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The award-winning work, told through a mix of free verse and haiku, offers a poignant and nuanced look at a young person growing up Black in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, finding herself through the art of writing.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2024
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Here are some of Robert Frost’s insights into how poetry works its magic: Writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2024
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Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.—
Elizabeth Lund,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Sep. 2024
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“Versification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/versification. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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