metrical composition
Example Sentences
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As master and model in metrical composition he chose Martial, and in his epigrammatic turn he is akin to the great Latin poet.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
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 Ambrose Bierce
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mary V turned white; also she wished that she had thought of mentioning the "rudimentary rules of metrical composition" instead of infant classes.
From Skyrider by Anton Otto Fischer
