metrical composition

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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

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

My knowledge of metrical composition," she continued, "is very limited.

From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Pidgin, Charles Felton

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

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

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)