NOUN
- a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
How To Use versifier In A Sentence
- He was a stained-glass designer, amateur architect, and occasional versifier (author of ‘I never saw a purple cow’).
- At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier.
- Nostradamus's formal range as a versifier is slight. The Times Literary Supplement
- But in the old days, popular poets and versifiers knew their high culture: they mocked and they borrowed.
- During the 1820s, a pompous and untalented versifier referred to the Pacific as a ‘liquid waste’, which makes it sound like sewage.
- The internet in its early years was hailed as the media's great diversifier and democratiser. Times, Sunday Times
- Gongoristic compositions due to himself and to two other versifiers, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR CIBBER says, 'Pope was so good a versifier [once], that, his predecessor, Mr The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
- A remarkable versifier, Dylan exploits the possibilities of poetic form more vitally and vigorously than ever.
- El Greco was like a writer, sometimes a poet and sometimes a versifier, who had little command of syntax.
