metrist

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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

For, skilful and accomplished metrist as he was, it was only by dint of "repeated experiments and intense mental effort" that he achieved those results in which his art appears most artless.

From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington

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.

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

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