metrical composition
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It is recommended, therefore, that one or more of the simpler kinds of metrical composition be tried.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
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
Mary V turned white; also she wished that she had thought of mentioning the "rudimentary rules of metrical composition" instead of infant classes.
From Skyrider by Anton Otto Fischer
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 P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
Wordsworth apologizes for using the word "Poetry" as synonymous with metrical composition.
From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
