metrical

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In 1985, Mr. Black appeared at the first National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., delivering his rhyming, metrical works in a distinctive sagebrush twang.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2022

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

Consequently, the audience is left to rapidly apprehend different historical eras, as well as languages and metrical forms—a tall order.

From Economist • Jun. 5, 2018

What gives the three phrases their climactic force is actually a metrical effect.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith