metrical composition
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Suppose the word canto to be taken in its literal etymological sense, it would indicate a metrical composition meant to be sung or chanted.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Tim Tippin should study the art of metrical composition.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Peters, Charles
C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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
‘Between the language of prose and that of metrical composition, there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
