They work in meters (5)

I believe the answer is:

poets

(Other definitions for poets that I've seen before include "Verse writers" , "bridges, for example (but extra capital is needed)" , "Estop (anag.)" , "Heaney and Muldoon" , "Burns" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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