rhymist

That in his day of plenary inspiration, Milton, who disdained Dryden as "a rhymist but no poet," and has recorded his own impatience with the "drawling versifiers," should have undertaken to grind down the noble antistrophic lyrics of the Hebrew bard into ballad rhymes for the use of Puritan worship, would have been impossible.

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

Whereas the chief concern of the rhymist is to beware that his couplets and his sense be commensurate, lest the regularity of his numbers should be (too frequently at least) interrupted.

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832

Dryden, who sometimes visited him, was, that he was a good rhymist, but no poet.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746