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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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So, he got rid of the academia and the poetry, which appear to have been fairly important to the novel’s overall effect.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
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Throughout its history, The New Yorker has been known for publishing influential writers such as J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Joan Didion, and James Baldwin, and for introducing groundbreaking literary fiction, poetry, and essays.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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Purple: Commander-In-Chief names if they were put into a rap or poem.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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The strategy is less effective for improving outputs such as poems or translations, in which ranking is subjective.—
Lauren Leffer,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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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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But Drake understandably didn’t fire off his lawsuit then, as ricochets from rich college quads (hip-hop’s prime audience) could have killed his image even more than Lamar’s rhymes did.—
Bill Hochberg,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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His rhymes are well written, well executed, and spit with intention.—
Kyle Eustice,
SPIN,
6 Jan. 2025
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The Musical performer isn't afraid to take on out-of-the-box projects and push boundaries with her explicit lyrics and jaw-dropping outfits.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Featuring a book, music and lyrics by Brown, the two-hander first premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
22 Jan. 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 3 Feb. 2025.
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