Sentence:  Should one gather statistics of the enormous production of poetry some sixty or seventy years ago, they would scarcely appear credible. Journals and magazines teemed with it. Editors openly countenanced it. Even the daily press affected it. Love sighed in home-made stanzas. Patriotism <WSD>rhapsodized</WSD> on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To perform a rhapsody.