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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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Is Sister Paxton feeling a hollowness in the poetry of her faith here?Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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With spot-on comedic timing on both players’ parts, Hernandez’s boisterous interruptions paired well with Wickline’s soft-spoken poetry.Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 2 Nov. 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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As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Co-written with The Office executive producer Ben Silverman, The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin is described as a comedic retelling of the classic poem, featuring a visit from Steve Carell’s Michael Scott as Santa and narrated by Baumgartner’s Kevin Malone.Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 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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Gloria obliged, balancing out Jay’s heady rhymes with spoken reminiscences, making the track feel like a mini oral history.Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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For Still Praying, the Buffalo soldier links with DJ Drama, who serves as the host amid rampant rhyme spills on the part of Westside and his Griselda cohorts.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Prosecutors plan to admit Melly's lyrics into evidence for his retrial.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement Original material began to emerge — songs that were melodic and oblique in equal measure, with arpeggiated guitar hooks and Stipe’s lyrics drifting in and out of focus.Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 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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The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
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Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
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“Versification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/versification. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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