metrical composition
Example Sentences
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You ought to study the rules of metrical composition before putting your thoughts into metre.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. by Peters, Charles
The sonnet is a form of metrical composition which has been habitual with me, as my volume "Three Hundred Sonnets" will go to prove; and I have written quite a hundred more.
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
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 Mordell, Albert
Tim Tippin should study the art of metrical composition.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Peters, Charles
C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
