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

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

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

My knowledge of metrical composition," she continued, "is very limited.

From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Pidgin, Charles Felton

Yet in this abundance of metrical composition, we have very few poems.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous