prosodist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prosodist
Example Sentences
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He was a mordant wit, a sophisticated prosodist and a devilish rhymer.
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
Diverting to tell, it was this passage that an old prosodist, one Pollo, claimed for his own.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
You—my learned prosodist and student of Browning and Shelley—will agree with me that it is not a masterpiece.
From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
"Let a deaf worshipper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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