• the art of making verses, see poetry
  Poetry
  Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
  
  
• the theory of the phonetic structure of verse, see meter (poetry)
  Meter (poetry)
  In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study of metres and forms of versification is known as prosody...
  
  
• the rendition of a prose work into verse, especially of classical works during the Middle Ages, see medieval poetry
  Medieval poetry
  Because most of what we have was written down by clerics, much of extant medieval poetry is religious. The chief exception is the work of the troubadours and the minnesänger, whose primary innovation was the ideal of courtly love. Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a...
  
  
• the subdivision of the books of the Bible into "verses", see Versification (Bible)

See also

• versifier
  Versifier
  * a poetaster* the versificator regis, or "king's poet"...
  
   (contemptuously of mediocre poets)
• Versificator (disambiguation)