each containing a fixed number of accented syllables and hemistichs separated by a pause: Crist lim, | Crist reum, | Crist in degaid Crist indium | Crist issum | Crist úasum | Crist dessum | Crist úasum This versification, one of the elements of which was the repetition of words or sounds at regular intervals, was transformed about the eighth century into a more learned system.

Versification is the forming of that species of literary composition which is called verse; that is, poetry, or poetic numbers.

It is without reason, therefore, that some critics have censured these modes of speech, and ridiculed the poet for the use of them; as old Euclid did, objecting that versification would be an easy business, if it were permitted to lengthen words at pleasure, and then giving a burlesque example of that sort of diction...

G. B. "Versification is the art of arranging words into lines of correspondent length, so as to produce harmony by the regular alternation of syllables differing in quantity"Brown's Institutes of E. Gram., p. 235.

"Versification is the arrangement of a certain number of syllables according to certain laws.

Versification in a dead language is an exotic, a far-fetched, costly, sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection.