versification

From verse + -ification.

versification (countable and uncountable, plural versifications)

1. (poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
2. (biblical) The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses

• lineation

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “versification”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• verifications

From versifier.

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versification f (plural versifications)

1. versification

• “versification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012