metrist

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There are not five metrists in the kingdom, whose works are known by me, to whom I could have held myself allowed to have spoken so plainly.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Our old metrists were careful of elasticity, a quality which modern verse has lost in proportion as our language has stiffened into uniformity under the benumbing fingers of pedants.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

The first line of Paradise Lost, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit," always a favorite specimen for metrists to dissect, is of like character.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Marlowe and Shakespeare, the two best metrists among them, have given us a standard by which to measure what licenses they took in versification,—the one in his translations, the other in his poems.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell