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Versification (n.) along ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠with accent and the like is the gesture of speech.

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Versification (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a music that, more remotely, re-echoes the dim yet specific course and character of the ideas.

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Versification (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠banned as 'unnatural' only by superficial theory — Lessing, Schiller and Goethe all wrote prose plays and then returned to verse.