metrist
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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
No other metre allows of anything like the variety of blank verse in this regard, and no other metrist makes so splendid a use of its freedom.
From Milton by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
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
For the Greek poet was, as a metrist, thinking primarily of quantity, of the relative "timing" of his syllables, and the American of the relative "stress" of his syllables.
From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
