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VERSIFICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does versification mean?
• VERSIFICATION (noun)
The noun VERSIFICATION has 3 senses:
1. a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)
2. the form or metrical composition of a poem
3. the art or practice of writing verse
Familiarity information: VERSIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("versification" is a kind of...):
adaptation; version (a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form)
Derivation:
versify (compose verses or put into verse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The form or metrical composition of a poem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("versification" is a kind of...):
form (an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "versification"):
poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern ((prosody) a system of versification)
rhyme; rime (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))
Derivation:
versify (compose verses or put into verse)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The art or practice of writing verse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("versification" is a kind of...):
authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)
Derivation:
versify (compose verses or put into verse)
Context examples
At about this time, too, I made three discoveries: first, that Mrs. Crupp was a martyr to a curious disorder called the spazzums, which was generally accompanied with inflammation of the nose, and required to be constantly treated with peppermint; secondly, that something peculiar in the temperature of my pantry, made the brandy-bottles burst; thirdly, that I was alone in the world, and much given to record that circumstance in fragments of English versification.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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