metrical composition

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As Froude observes, he had little ear for metrical composition.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Wordsworth apologizes for using the word "Poetry" as synonymous with metrical composition.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

But never in all my life—" "Oh, well, if you ever get out of the infant class, Miss Selmer, you may learn a few rudimentary rules of metrical composition.

From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto

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