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versecraft

versecraft noun: the art of writing poetry.

Noun

versecraft (uncountable)

  1. The art of writing poetry.
    • The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvi

Origin of versecraft

From verse + craft.

Questions about versecraft

What does versecraft mean?
Versecraft means the art of writing poetry.
What part of speech is versecraft?
Versecraft is a noun.

Words near versecraft in the dictionary

  1. versatility
  2. verse
  3. verse-chorus
  4. verse-maker
  5. verse-making
  6. versecraft
  7. versed
  8. versed cosine
  9. versed cosines
  10. versed sine
  11. versed sines

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