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Definition of Metrist
1. n. A maker of verses.
Definition of Metrist
1. Noun. One who writes verses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metrist
1. one who metrifies [n -S] - See also: metrifies
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrist
Literary usage of Metrist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secondary Accent in Modern English Verse: (Chaucer to Dryden) by Raymond Durbin Miller (1904)
"The metrist, as a critic, ... The metrist, who usually belongs to ... When the
metrist shall understand just what ..."
2. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"Mr. Phillips, I presume, does not address himself, as a metrist, to readers of
this class: let him ask himself whether some of the critics who yield him ..."
3. Karl Lebrecht Immermann: A Study in German Romanticism by Allen Wilson Porterfield (1911)
"As a metrist, Immermann stood somewhere between Heine and Freiligrath. ...
Yet Immermann placed Freiligrath above Lenau and Cha- misso as a metrist (cf. ..."
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