metrical composition
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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
This is the only metrical composition of prolific Daniel that has any pretensions to be called a poem.
From History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
It must be read aloud to them and its beauties pointed out occasionally to create a love for so artificial a thing as metrical composition.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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
There is nothing said in this definition about rhythm or metre, and indeed Mill regarded as the vulgarest of all any definition of poetry which confounds it with metrical composition.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
