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• n  a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)
• n  the form or metrical composition of a poem
• n  the art or practice of writing verse

• His versification, inspired by Vittorio Mussolini's classic comparison of a bursting bomb to a "budding rose" was dedicated "to all aviators who have bombed defenseless civilian .
• A versification by Nevill Coghill, preserving much of the lusty, 14th century tone of the original Chaucer in a rendering as witty and up-to-date as the conversation of a 20th .
• Hart has never studied versification, never uses a rhyming dictionary.

Quotes

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• Lincoln Kirstein in New York Times
  Union Jackmay well be "visual, aural, metrical versification by an expert," as Kirstein wrote.