metrist
Example Sentences
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In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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 May Clarissa Gillington Byron
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
