metrist
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Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.
From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross
His verse was not the heroic line of ten syllables, chosen by most of the standard translators, but the long fourteen-syllabled measure, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
For the Greek poet was, as a metrist, thinking primarily of quantity, of the relative "timing" of his syllables, and the American of the relative "stress" of his syllables.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant