metrical composition

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Study the Laws governing Metrical Composition If you feel you can best express yourself in verse, make a comprehensive study of the laws governing metrical composition.

From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora

Fiddlesticks.—Your verses have been written without due knowledge of metrical composition.

From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various

The sonnet is a form of metrical composition which has been habitual with me, as my volume "Three Hundred Sonnets" will go to prove; and I have written quite a hundred more.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

‘Between the language of prose and that of metrical composition, there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference.’

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David