metrist
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As has been pointed out above,544 Massinger is a strict metrist, and does not often resort to this liberty, even in rapid conversation.
From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.
No other metre allows of anything like the variety of blank verse in this regard, and no other metrist makes so splendid a use of its freedom.
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
Certainly all later versions—Pope's and Cowper's and Lord Derby's and Bryant's—seem pale against the glowing exuberance of Chapman's English, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
