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versecraft

noun

Etymology

From verse + craft.

  1. inherited from *kraftuz✻ — “strength, power”
  2. inherited from *kraftu✻
  3. inherited from cræft — “strength, skill”
  4. inherited from craft — “strength, skill”
  5. inherited from craft
  6. compounded as versecraft — “verse + craft”

Definitions

  1. The art of writing poetry.

    • The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for versecraft. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA