释义 |
Definition of metricist in English: metricistnoun ˈmɛtrɪsɪst A person who writes in or analyses poetic metre. Example sentencesExamples - Tennyson was an expert metricist, but in this poem he keeps things pretty simple, sticking with the standard meter of English, iambic pentameter.
- This poem reveals Wulfstan as perhaps the most accomplished Latin metricist which Anglo-Saxon England produced.
- He remarked that Paul was a 'wretched metricist'.
- This establishes the position of the songs within the German tradition and suggests fundamental structural principles to the metricist as well as the musicologist.
- Since his death an attempt has been made to minimise his importance and even to deny that he is a real poet and to describe him as a mere virtuoso and skilful metricist.
Synonyms verse writer, versifier, verse-maker, rhymester, rhymer, sonneteer, lyricist, lyrist, elegist |