metrical composition
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Possessed of an ardent love of reading, he early became familiar with the English poets, and himself tried metrical composition.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
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
But never in all my life—" "Oh, well, if you ever get out of the infant class, Miss Selmer, you may learn a few rudimentary rules of metrical composition.
From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto
‘There neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
From these indications it has been suggested that the whole inscription is a metrical composition, a short poem or hymn—perhaps one leaf of an Anatolian Book of Psalms whose other pages have perished.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James
