noun. One who versifies; one who makes verses; a poet.

noun. One who expresses in verse the ideas of another; one who turns prose into verse; a maker of a metrical paraphrase: as, a versifier of the Psalms.

noun. One who versifies, or makes verses.

noun. One who converts into verse; one who expresses in verse the ideas of another written in prose. Watts was a versifier of the Psalms.

noun. One who versifies.

noun. An inferior poet.

noun. a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

"Gone were the days when poets were seen as avatars of divinely inspired knowledge: for Plato (despite having dabbled in poetry himself in his salad days), the versifier was a feckless artificer, a pernicious influence on the moral hygiene of the polis and not to be trusted with the heavy lifting of the intellect."

prosaist  

author  poet  writer  

Jacobean  talentless  

jingler  lyrist  poet  rhymester  rhymist