metrist
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His verse was not the heroic line of ten syllables, chosen by most of the standard translators, but the long fourteen-syllabled measure, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Certainly all later versions—Pope's and Cowper's and Lord Derby's and Bryant's—seem pale against the glowing exuberance of Chapman's English, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
To the metrist and rhythmist the poem will be of interest from the first, and throughout.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
As has been pointed out above,544 Massinger is a strict metrist, and does not often resort to this liberty, even in rapid conversation.
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
In his dramas Hugo used the alexandrine, but in his lyric poems, his wonderful resources as a metrist were exhibited to the utmost in the invention of the most bizarre, eccentric, and original verse forms.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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