metrist

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For, skilful and accomplished metrist as he was, it was only by dint of "repeated experiments and intense mental effort" that he achieved those results in which his art appears most artless.

From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington

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 Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

See notes on Dunbar as a metrist, in this edition, vol. i. pp. cxlix and clxxii, and T. F. Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature, pp. 153-164.

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

Certainly all later versions—Pope's and Cowper's and Lord Derby's and Bryant's—seem pale against the glowing exuberance of Chapman's English, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross