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

There is nothing said in this definition about rhythm or metre, and indeed Mill regarded as the vulgarest of all any definition of poetry which confounds it with metrical composition.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

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

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

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

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