noun. The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.

noun. The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

noun. The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.

noun. a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)

noun. the form or metrical composition of a poem

noun. the art or practice of writing verse

"French, it may pass for a merit; since, to judge from the practice of the national poets, the French ear seems to be even better pleased with such strict identities of sound, at the close of corresponding lines, than it is with those definite mere resemblances to which, in English versification, rhymes are rigidly limited."

verse  versificator  versificatrix  versifier  versify  

adaptation  authorship  composition  penning  version  

cadence  calligraphy  cookery  declamation  diction  

Stabreim  alliterative meter  ars poetica  measure  meter