metrist

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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

Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross

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

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