metrical composition
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My knowledge of metrical composition," she continued, "is very limited.
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Pidgin, Charles Felton
From these indications it has been suggested that the whole inscription is a metrical composition, a short poem or hymn—perhaps one leaf of an Anatolian Book of Psalms whose other pages have perished.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James
Throughout the following pages “verse” stands for any kind of metrical composition as distinguished from prose.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Possessed of an ardent love of reading, he early became familiar with the English poets, and himself tried metrical composition.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
