to versify

Examples

• All

• It was in his capacity as an "official" poet, however, that he was expected to versify the King's dramatic imagination.

  Academic text (2000)

• More humorously, George Alexander Stevens, at the end of the eighteenth century, versified merrily: PREFORMATTED TABLE

  Academic text (1997)

• - ...versify.

  The Midas Touch (2020)

• Nonetheless, Hayley thought highly of his botanical colleague, for he wrote a poem to introduce his friend's versified descriptions of plant sexuality: PREFORMATTED TABLE

  Academic text (1993)

• The autos viewed in context are quite literally "versified sermons": they incorporate and brilliantly exemplify many of the techniques of contemporaneous homiletics.

  Academic text (1990)

• After reading the novel, he was inspired to versify its themes and messages in a lyrical poem.

• To honor her grandmother, she chose to versify the stories she had told during her childhood.

Synonyms

V

to verse

vsto versify

• Literature

3 7.2

To write something as a poem

is the same action but differs only in verb form

P

to poetize

vsto versify

8.4

To write something so it reads like a poem

is more narrowly about composing actual poems rather than general poetic style

M

to metrify

vsto versify

• Literature

9.9

Arrange words into a regular beat to make a poem

focuses on forming poems broadly rather than enforcing strict meter

How Poetic

to versify

• Literature

9.4

to poetize

8.4

to express

∞ 2.3

to phrase

46 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology