versification
Other forms: versifications
Versification is when you turn something into a poem: "The versification of this grocery list was a lot harder than I imagined, because nothing rhymes with 'orange.'"
You're most likely to come across the noun versification in an academic setting, like a poetry class. You can use it to mean the adaptation of some other kind of writing into verse, or to talk about the form — meter, rhythm, or language — of a poem. It comes from the Latin word versificationem, and it's closely related to versify, whose root is versificare, "compare verse or turn into verse."
Definitions of versification
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the art or practice of writing verse
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authorship, composition, penning, writing
the act of creating written works
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authorship, composition, penning, writing
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a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)
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adaptation, retelling, version
a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
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adaptation, retelling, version
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the form or metrical composition of a poem
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poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern
(prosody) a system of versification
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rhyme, rime
correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
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rhyme scheme
the pattern of rhymes in a poem or stanza
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beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
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sprung rhythm
a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech
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internal rhyme
a rhyme between words in the same line
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alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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assonance, vowel rhyme
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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consonance, consonant rhyme
the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words
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double rhyme
a two-syllable rhyme
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eye rhyme
an imperfect rhyme on words that appear to rhyme (e.g., 'love' and `move')
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slant rhyme
an imperfect rhyme in which only the vowel sounds or consonant sounds correspond, as in “far / part” or “last / taste
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form
an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
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