metrical composition

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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

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

Wordsworth apologizes for using the word "Poetry" as synonymous with metrical composition.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

‘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

This also is a metrical composition; and it has the merit of being both shorter and also more correct.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)