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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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Coal miners have a long tradition creating poetry and music related to their job, settlement officials said.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Here’s a special selection of fantastic novels from Kenyan authors representing fresh perspectives on the human condition across poetry, fiction and nonfiction.—
Wanjeri Gakuru
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
Noun
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What makes the collection particularly unique is Kosann’s approach to reinventing classics—like the lockets, charms, and poesy rings that she’s reinterpreted in the past—but also Evert’s unique experience of being so connected to the tennis bracelet.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
17 Aug. 2022
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Kosann and Mirojnick designed three core styles for the collection: a poesy ring, a charm and a locket.—
EJ Panaligan,
Variety,
15 Nov. 2022
Noun
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The truth is that Korby won Christine over with kindness and a Pablo Neruda poem.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
17 July 2025
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Like a poem, happiness is under no onus to mean something other than itself.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
Noun
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It was used as a dehumanizing form of minstrelsy that further objectified Black men.—
Taryn Finley,
Refinery29,
1 May 2025
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And those fans, like him, dismissed the notion that the team’s on-court antics crossed the line from comedy to minstrelsy, as many critics had opined over the years.—
David Aldridge,
The Athletic,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The roundups and expulsions in the novel rhyme with the Trump administration’s error-prone but unapologetic deportation strategy.—
James Shapiro,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2025
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These audios are also typically packed with tongue twisters and rhymes.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
29 May 2025
Noun
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Whether belting out apocalyptic lyrics in overdrive or crooning heartfelt odes to love, Osbourne sang with unmistakable feeling and conviction.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 July 2025
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Both Nicks and Buckingham shared handwritten lyrics to their official social media accounts.—
Maria Sherman,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Though most of Milosz’s poetry was written in free verse, no effort has been made to force the English versions into the complicated poetic forms the poet sometimes preferred — that would have required a different sense of obligation.—
William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 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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But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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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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“Versification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/versification. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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