metrist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of metrist
From the Medieval Latin word metrista, dating back to 1525–35. See meter 2, -ist
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.
From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross
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)
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