versification

Etymology

verse + -ification

noun

  1. (poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
  2. (biblical) The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses

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