metrical composition
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Yet in this abundance of metrical composition, we have very few poems.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
Pretty fair, but—if a metrical composition full of poetry is not a poem what is it?
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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
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
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
