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metrist

noun as in poet

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noun as in poetaster

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noun as in poetess

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noun as in rhymer

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noun as in rhymester

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noun as in versifier

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It readily appears that Chaucer was a great metrist, and bestowed many new forms of metre upon our literature.

He was our first great metrist, and has frequent references to his poetical art.

As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.

In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.

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