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metre

synonyms for metre

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All insert yis (or yes) before parde; which spoils both sense and metre.

All insert white after Was, which spoils metre and story (see l. 948).

I supply look, for the sake of sense and metre; read—But good swet' hert-, look that ye.

Unfortunately, all the scribes have repeated it, to the ruin of the metre; for the line then contains two syllables too many.

Koch would omit hit, for the sake of the metre; but it makes no difference at all, the e in thoghte being elided.

But it was all rewritten in a new metre, and is preserved to us, for all time, in the famous passage in the Knightes Tale; ll.

MS. han ye me, correctly; Percy omits me, and so spoils both sense and metre.

It fulfils the requirements of both metre and sense, and the words untalk'd of and unseen make it nearly indisputable.

In Greece the principle of the interdependence of language, metre, and musical sound was carried very far.

The fragment marked C by M. Weil resembles the hymn to Apollo in subject, and also in metre, but cannot belong to the same work.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985