metrical composition

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To begin with the first count, Gray, we are told, sought to widen the space of separation betwixt prose and metrical composition.

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert

But never in all my life—" "Oh, well, if you ever get out of the infant class, Miss Selmer, you may learn a few rudimentary rules of metrical composition.

From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto

This is the only metrical composition of prolific Daniel that has any pretensions to be called a poem.

From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel

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

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