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versification

noun

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as in poetry

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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. — Christopher Tayler, Harper’s Magazine , 17 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

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Noun

Prose poetry, the lyric essay and other hybrid forms of literature play at the intersection of genre, which usually defines these separate categories of writing.

— Amy Cannon, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
Several of my favorite poetry collections capture the nuanced process of breaking up, with its extreme states of longing, anger, and sorrow—while also expanding the capacity for joy, pleasure, and compassion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of poetry

Noun

The collection evolved from there into Monica’s distinctive twist on some of her favorite antique and vintage pieces—charms, poesy rings and celestial motifs.

— Beth Bernstein, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022
Around my neck is my poesy ring 'adventure' necklace, with a locket holding my secret messages.

— Will Kahn, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2019

Definition of poesy

Noun

The poems push against the binaries of leaving and being left and embrace ongoing love in the wake of loss.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Taken together, these masterworks mirror Prieto’s own process, which often uses chance as a springboard for composition and which harnesses ephemera — memories, scents, poems, or even architectural fragments — to create new work.

— Jill Singer, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of poem

Noun

From minstrelsy to cake walks to the chitlin circuit, the audience has always been crucial to the context.

— Lauren Morrow September 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
The minstrelsy of late-night-TV activism Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart protested the cancellation by CBS of his cohort Stephen Colbert’s Late Show by staging an appalling musical routine on The Daily Show, circling the wagons in Colbert’s defense.

— Armond White, National Review, 25 July 2025

Definition of minstrelsy

Noun

Closets Without a Purpose Garcia’s definition of a closet without purpose is a space where belongings have piled up without rhyme, reason, or a clear system to help organize whatever is inside.

— Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 15 Sep. 2026
Galtié also pointed out that the garden sits steps from the Vanderbilt Gate, a fitting historical rhyme given the family’s ties to Boucheron.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of rhyme

Noun

The show won eight Tony Awards, including two for Sheik, for the score — shared with the musical’s book and lyrics writer, Steven Sater — and for orchestrations.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
With its fragile acoustic melodies, desolate lyrics, and spare, subtle studio accompaniment, Ride Lonesome is like Nick Drake’s mumble-folk masterpiece Bryter Layter as the work of a lovelorn Laurel Canyon soft-rock poet.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of lyric

Noun

There was no such thing as free verse until the late 19th century.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
The poem’s narrative frequently shifts between different speakers and languages, and Eliot employed a range of styles and techniques, including free verse and stream of consciousness.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026

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