metrist
Example Sentences
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As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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
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
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
