metrist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of metrist
From the Medieval Latin word metrista, dating back to 1525–35. See meter 2, -ist
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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 Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
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 George Saintsbury
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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 Bliss Perry
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 May Clarissa Gillington Byron
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