metrist

Marianne Moore was a lifelong tennis player but not a good metrist.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Marianne Moore was a lifelong tennis player but not a good metrist.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

The accomplished versification permitted the great metrist in Housman to establish the canons of Manilius's practice, and to use them.

Housman at Work & Play Plowden, G.F.C. 1984

We quite agree with Mr. White and Mr. Knight in their hearty dislike of the Steevens-system of versification, but we think that Coleridge (who, although the best English metrist since Milton, often thought lazily and talked loosely) has misled both of them in what he has said about the pauses and retardations of verse.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

The immediate application of this psychological fact to the temporal rhythms has been clearly phrased by the French metrist, M. Verrier:

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

Dryden, too, approves of Fairfax, considered at least as a metrist.

Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

To the metrist and rhythmist the poem will be of interest from the first, and throughout.

Notes 1918

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.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

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.

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

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.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889