metrical composition

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This is the only metrical composition of prolific Daniel that has any pretensions to be called a poem.

From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel

The performance is a metrical composition, in stanzas of eleven verses.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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)

As master and model in metrical composition he chose Martial, and in his epigrammatic turn he is akin to the great Latin poet.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

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