metrical

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Here, in Globish—with plus signs indicating missing words that Terry apparently doesn’t want to guess at and vertical lines demarcating metrical units—are the trapper’s instructions to Shamhat for seducing Enkidu:

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

The Breeches Edition recently returned to Pittsburgh also had an attached hymnal known as a metrical Psalter - the book of Psalms set to musical notation, he said.

From Washington Times • May 11, 2019

But the clunking gear changes between two metrical forms make it hard to build up a rhythm in either.

From Economist • Jun. 5, 2018

And while general rhythm was good overall, the few problems all involved longer notes being slightly too short, distorting the metrical feel of a phrase.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2017

“It’s not iambic either. I don’t know if it’s anything metrical at all.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss