metrical composition
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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
You ought to study the rules of metrical composition before putting your thoughts into metre.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. by Peters, Charles
This is the only metrical composition of prolific Daniel that has any pretensions to be called a poem.
From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel
The end of poetry, we take it, is to please—and the name, we think, is strictly applicable to every metrical composition from which we receive pleasure, without any laborious exercise of the understanding.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis
The verse shows great facility of metrical composition, but a considerable portion of it is transferred from the tragedies of Seneca.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
