metrical composition
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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 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
Full of poetical feeling, and with a strong desire for poetical expression, Emerson experienced a difficulty in the mechanical part of metrical composition.
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
The end of poetry, we take it, is to please—and the name, we think, is strictly applicable to every metrical composition from which we receive pleasure, without any laborious exercise of the understanding.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis
