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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
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This is not a proclamation of the obvious, namely that pop is the opposite of poetry.Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Kwanzaa celebrations vary, but typically include lighting candles, one per night; placing meaningful items on a traditional woven mat on tables; sharing meals and a karamu feast; poetry; dance and music, according to the Official Kwanzaa website.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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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
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The video is set to the sound of Louis Armstrong reading the iconic poem mentioned in the caption — written by Clement Clarke Moore.Raven Brunner, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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The plot, of course, is a riff on Clement Clarke Moore’s poem about a man who steps from his bed while his wife and children slumber to observe St. Nicholas doing what St. Nicholas does.Colin Fleming, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
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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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The spot becomes an instant hit with the townspeople, especially when Khalid starts an open-mic night, rhymes, beats and folk music sharing the moonlit air.Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Poppa’s not pleased, which leads to an awkward and painfully unfunny exchange of freestyle rhymes.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 21 Oct. 2024
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The lyrics brim over with characters, narratives, and vividly rendered American scenery. 10.Al Shipley, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
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Viewers met Samberg as Clementine, who's playing keyboard and crooning his heart out in his apartment to ridiculous lyrics that seem to be about a girl who's — an actual drink?Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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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 30 Dec. 2024.
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