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
There are other soft spots in “Monument,” moments when Trethewey’s metrical dexterity slackens or her political points are too on the nose.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2018
But the clunking gear changes between two metrical forms make it hard to build up a rhythm in either.
From Economist • Jun. 5, 2018
“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
Vocabulary lists containing metrical
Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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Reading: Literature - High School
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