versification

/ˌvɜrsəfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Other forms: versifications

Versification is when you turn something into a poem: "The versification of this grocery list was a lot harder than I imagined, because nothing rhymes with 'orange.'"

You're most likely to come across the noun versification in an academic setting, like a poetry class. You can use it to mean the adaptation of some other kind of writing into verse, or to talk about the form — meter, rhythm, or language — of a poem. It comes from the Latin word versificationem, and it's closely related to versify, whose root is versificare, "compare verse or turn into verse."

Definitions of versification

1. noun

   the art or practice of writing verse
   type of:

   authorship, composition, penning, writing

   the act of creating written works
2. noun

   a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)
   type of:

   adaptation, retelling, version

   a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
3. noun

   the form or metrical composition of a poem
   types:

   poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern

   (prosody) a system of versification

   rhyme, rime

   correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

   rhyme scheme

   the pattern of rhymes in a poem or stanza

   beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre

   (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

   sprung rhythm

   a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech

   internal rhyme

   a rhyme between words in the same line

   alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme

   use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

   assonance, vowel rhyme

   the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

   consonance, consonant rhyme

   the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words

   double rhyme

   a two-syllable rhyme

   eye rhyme

   an imperfect rhyme on words that appear to rhyme (e.g., 'love' and `move')

   slant rhyme

   an imperfect rhyme in which only the vowel sounds or consonant sounds correspond, as in “far / part” or “last / taste

   type of:

   form

   an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse