What is "metrify"

Metrify \Met"ri*fy\, v. i. [L. metrum meter + -fy: cf. F. m['e]trifier.] To make verse. [R.]
--Skelton.

vb. 1 To make verse. 2 (context US Canada English) metricate

1. v. compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely"

2. convert from a non-metric to the metric system [syn: metricize, metricise, metricate]

3. [also: metrified]