metrical composition
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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 Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
Fiddlesticks.—Your verses have been written without due knowledge of metrical composition.
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various
The end of poetry, we take it, is to please—and the name, we think, is strictly applicable to every metrical composition from which we receive pleasure, without any laborious exercise of the understanding.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis
Yet in this abundance of metrical composition, we have very few poems.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
The popularity obtained by the ballad of "Auld Robin Gray" has seldom been exceeded in the history of any other metrical composition.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
