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

ate of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.

A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

Composition in metrical form; versification. [R.] Tennyson.

The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct versification.

part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. Prior. Verse embalms virtue. Donne.