metrical composition
Example Sentences
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As Froude observes, he had little ear for metrical composition.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
Lord Jeffrey, one of the keenest of critics, says that the term may properly be applied to "every metrical composition from which we derive pleasure without any laborious exercise of the understanding."
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations by Carman, Bliss
The performance is a metrical composition, in stanzas of eleven verses.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
From these indications it has been suggested that the whole inscription is a metrical composition, a short poem or hymn—perhaps one leaf of an Anatolian Book of Psalms whose other pages have perished.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James
Suppose the word canto to be taken in its literal etymological sense, it would indicate a metrical composition meant to be sung or chanted.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
