Versification

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

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Stabreim, alliterative meter, ars poetica, measure, meter, metrical pattern, metrics, numbers, poetcraft, poetic justice, poetic language, poetic license, poeticism, poetics, prosodic pattern, prosody, quantitative meter, scanning, scansion, syllabic meter, vers libre, versecraft, versemaking