metrical composition
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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
Fiddlesticks.—Your verses have been written without due knowledge of metrical composition.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various
‘There neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
Wordsworth apologizes for using the word "Poetry" as synonymous with metrical composition.
From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
The sonnet is a form of metrical composition which has been habitual with me, as my volume "Three Hundred Sonnets" will go to prove; and I have written quite a hundred more.
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
