metrical composition
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‘There neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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)
The verse shows great facility of metrical composition, but a considerable portion of it is transferred from the tragedies of Seneca.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
Wordsworth apologizes for using the word "Poetry" as synonymous with metrical composition.
From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
It is not the multitude of remembered passages which settles the rank of a metrical composition as poetry.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
