Versification is the craft or system of making verse, especially the patterns that shape a poem's rhythm, meter, rhyme, and line arrangement. It includes the techniques a poet uses to organize language into poetic form, whether the poem follows a strict pattern or uses looser, freer movement.
Example
The moon was silver; night was deep,
The tired fields were hushed to sleep.
Each line moved in a steady beat,
And rhyme made every couplet meet.
Related Definitions
[n] the art or practice of writing verse
[n] the form or metrical composition of a poem
[n] a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)