prosodist

The moment poets began to count syllables, their difficulties began too – or the difficulties of the prosodist who tried to explain what the poet was doing.

Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

But in time came the inevitable prosodist under the formidable name of Abu Abd al -

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Bassorah, to send him Ibrahim bin Siyyár the prosodist, who was the first man of his day in argument and eloquence and poetry and logic, and bade him bring with him readers of the Koran and learned doctors of the law and physicians and astrologers and scientists and mathematicians and philosophers; and Ibrahim was more learned than all.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Thus the prosodist would scan the Shahnámeh of Firdausi as

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Eusebio Lillo: Guillermo Blest Gana; Eduardo de la Barra, both poet and prosodist; etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Let us apply these facts to some of the more simple of the vexed questions of prosody, No one disputes the universality of the rhythmizing impulse; the quarrel begins as soon as any prosodist attempts to dogmatize about the nature and measurement of those flowing time-intervals whose arrangement we call rhythm.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

It is like the secret of the rhythms of Verlaine, and no prosodist will ever tell us why a line like:

Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

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.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

You -- my learned prosodist and student of Browning and Shelley -- will agree with me that it is _not_ a masterpiece.

Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

When Khalil the prosodist was one day asked his opinion about Ibn

Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867