metrical composition

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As Froude observes, he had little ear for metrical composition.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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

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

There is nothing said in this definition about rhythm or metre, and indeed Mill regarded as the vulgarest of all any definition of poetry which confounds it with metrical composition.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

Pretty fair, but—if a metrical composition full of poetry is not a poem what is it?

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose