metrist

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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

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

For the Greek poet was, as a metrist, thinking primarily of quantity, of the relative "timing" of his syllables, and the American of the relative "stress" of his syllables.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

But the most remarkable instance of harmony between metrical form and other characteristics, both of form and matter, in the metrist has yet to be mentioned.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

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