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 

• VERSIFICATION (noun)

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)