Word For The Art Of A Balladeer Bard Elegist Lyricist Or Sonneteer Or Something Comparable To Versification In Beauty Or Rhythm

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Updated: September 9, 2025

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noun • literature in metrical form • any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
	83%	4		Meaning “maker”, a balladeer, bard, lyricist, sonneteer or versifier
noun • a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
	36%	9		Art of versification
noun • the patterns of stress and intonation in a language • (prosody) a system of versification • the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

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