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metre
noun as in rhythm
Weak match
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All insert yis (or yes) before parde; which spoils both sense and metre.
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All insert white after Was, which spoils metre and story (see l. 948).
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I supply look, for the sake of sense and metre; read—But good swet' hert-, look that ye.
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Unfortunately, all the scribes have repeated it, to the ruin of the metre; for the line then contains two syllables too many.
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Koch would omit hit, for the sake of the metre; but it makes no difference at all, the e in thoghte being elided.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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