metrist

English

Etymology

From metre (“poem”) +‎ -ist.

Noun

metrist (plural metrists)

1. Someone who writes verses.

   Synonyms: metrifier, metrician, versemonger, versesmith

   • 1970 November 28, Lisa Hammel, “Need an Occultist? Name Your Choice”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     While one can find lots of individual astrologers and graphologists, as well as an occasional palmist, psycho metrist or those astute in the reading of tarot cards or I Ching—Psychic Dimensions, Inc., has got it all together.

   • 1973, Thomas Cable, “A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody”, in College English, volume 34, number 4, page 593:

     Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.

Related terms

• meter

References

• “metrist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Meritts, mitters