versifier
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- noun
- /ˈvɜːrsɪfaɪər/
- Offensive
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poetastro
- As a well-known versifier, he participated in local poetry readings to promote his verses.
Examples
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For instance, in the 1869 Rules of Rhyme, the versifier and prosodist Tom Hood claimed, "Sound is the test of rhyme, and the ear the only judge."
Academic text (2017) -
Well, if you must know, there was this versifier: small, puny, all tied up in comme il faut, who always tried to stretch his lips in such a way that the veins on his neck would bulge and his ankles scrape against each other when he walked...
Fiction book (1991) -
Even Robert Service knew better than that, refusing to call himself anything more than a versifier.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'd hover, daunting the versifiers!
Blog text (16) -
Nor has Hopkins's poetry fit with any movement, least of all those of his age, for it was an age of narrowly academic and broadly colloquial newspaper versifiers.
Blog text (24) -
Though he never knew it, he would also be the grandfather of a famous poet, and O'Brian slyly portrays him as unusually literate for a sailor and an aspiring versifier himself.
Academic text (1996) -
He calls himself a versifier, writing light poems for children's books.
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Many consider her a talented versifier, though her work often lacks depth.
Synonyms
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2.2
A person who writes words in a musical way that creates images to show feelings
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7.8
A person who writes lines that end with the same sounds
A person who writes bad rhymes to get attention
A person who writes poor-quality poems
A person who writes rhymes that are not very good
A poet or person who tells what will happen in ancient times
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Versifier comes from verse meaning 'a line of poetry' and the ending -ifier meaning 'maker'. So a versifier is literally a 'maker of verse', and the word is often used to mean a minor or routine poet.