metrist
Example Sentences
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No other metre allows of anything like the variety of blank verse in this regard, and no other metrist makes so splendid a use of its freedom.
From Milton by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
As has been pointed out above,544 Massinger is a strict metrist, and does not often resort to this liberty, even in rapid conversation.
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.
From Early Theories of Translation by Flora Ross Amos
For the Greek poet was, as a metrist, thinking primarily of quantity, of the relative "timing" of his syllables, and the American of the relative "stress" of his syllables.
From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
