metrist

Example Sentences

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As a metrist, therefore, Ramsay can claim little or no attention.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

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

To the metrist and rhythmist the poem will be of interest from the first, and throughout.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

See notes on Dunbar as a metrist, in this edition, vol. i. pp. cxlix and clxxii, and T. F. Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature, pp. 153-164.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

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