metrist

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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)

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

His verse was not the heroic line of ten syllables, chosen by most of the standard translators, but the long fourteen-syllabled measure, which degenerates easily into sing-song in the hands of a feeble metrist.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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

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