metrist
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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
In his dramas Hugo used the alexandrine, but in his lyric poems, his wonderful resources as a metrist were exhibited to the utmost in the invention of the most bizarre, eccentric, and original verse forms.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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
To the metrist and rhythmist the poem will be of interest from the first, and throughout.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
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
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