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
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
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
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
