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
This also is a metrical composition; and it has the merit of being both shorter and also more correct.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
Suppose the word canto to be taken in its literal etymological sense, it would indicate a metrical composition meant to be sung or chanted.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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
The performance is a metrical composition, in stanzas of eleven verses.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
