metrical composition
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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
‘Between the language of prose and that of metrical composition, there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference.’
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
Wordsworth apologizes for using the word "Poetry" as synonymous with metrical composition.
From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Study the Laws governing Metrical Composition If you feel you can best express yourself in verse, make a comprehensive study of the laws governing metrical composition.
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora
From these indications it has been suggested that the whole inscription is a metrical composition, a short poem or hymn—perhaps one leaf of an Anatolian Book of Psalms whose other pages have perished.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James
