metrical composition
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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
A metrical composition is divided into lines, each line containing a definite number of syllables.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Horatio Winslow
‘Between the language of prose and that of metrical composition, there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Mary V turned white; also she wished that she had thought of mentioning the "rudimentary rules of metrical composition" instead of infant classes.
From Skyrider by Anton Otto Fischer
The popularity obtained by the ballad of "Auld Robin Gray" has seldom been exceeded in the history of any other metrical composition.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
