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)
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
While making these discoveries, Alec chanced to observe—he was quick-eyed—that some of the dusty papers on the table were scrawled over with the first amorphous appearance of metrical composition.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
Possessed of an ardent love of reading, he early became familiar with the English poets, and himself tried metrical composition.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
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
