metrical composition
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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
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
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
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
This also is a metrical composition; and it has the merit of being both shorter and also more correct.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
