prosodist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prosodist
Example Sentences
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His work was that of a grammarian, of a prosodist—in a word, that of a purist.
From Project Gutenberg
He was a mordant wit, a sophisticated prosodist and a devilish rhymer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world�Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the exact prosodist will find the line of swiftness by one time longer than that of tardiness. 332Beauties of this kind are commonly fancied; and, when real, are technical and nugatory, not to be rejected, and not to be solicited.
From Project Gutenberg
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