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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
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Each missive includes art, music, poetry, a devotional writing and a piece of scripture that all relate to each other and revolve around themes of hope, peace, joy and love.Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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The comic was an entertainment renaissance man who wrote endless lines of poetry, built his own props, and had countless ideas for movies and TV shows that nobody ever took seriously.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2024
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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
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Fans will find much to love in this collection, with plenty of poems that capture his trademark wit and delightfully depraved sense of humor.Ilana Masad, Them, 25 Nov. 2024
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Based loosely on a poem by AK Ramunajam about a girl who is temporarily transformed into a tree so that its flowers can be harvested and sold to support her family.Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
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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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Some adolescents like to journal, write poetry, lyrics, or rhymes.Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024
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The square container rhymes with the square shape of our book.Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
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One of the most recognizable songs in Disney history has received a new set of lyrics after 60 years.EW.com, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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The Roots also performed with child-friendly instruments and with silver pompoms in hand as a wink to the lyrics.Marina Watts, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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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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The first assignment was to write a poem in blank verse.Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2024
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Through a stylish mix of prose, blank verse and illustrations, Last on His Feet captures these tensions with unsparing poignancy.Brandon Tensley, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
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“Versification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/versification. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.
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