metrical composition
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Throughout the following pages “verse” stands for any kind of metrical composition as distinguished from prose.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio
Mary V turned white; also she wished that she had thought of mentioning the "rudimentary rules of metrical composition" instead of infant classes.
From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
Full of poetical feeling, and with a strong desire for poetical expression, Emerson experienced a difficulty in the mechanical part of metrical composition.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
