metrical composition

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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

Mary V turned white; also she wished that she had thought of mentioning the "rudimentary rules of metrical composition" instead of infant classes.

From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto

Yet in this abundance of metrical composition, we have very few poems.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

Suppose the word canto to be taken in its literal etymological sense, it would indicate a metrical composition meant to be sung or chanted.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Full of poetical feeling, and with a strong desire for poetical expression, Emerson experienced a difficulty in the mechanical part of metrical composition.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell