metrical
metrical
Definition
met·ri·cal (me′tri kəl)
metrical
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- psalm: Moreover, the only music sold in the whole place is Scottish Metrical psalms.
- verse: Croft is working within traditional poetic formats, with pretty strict metrical verses and with firm rhyming schemes.
- rhythm: What, then, was the early modern experience of metrical rhythm?
- pattern: Thus any tune of a given metrical pattern could readily be matched with the words of any hymn in the same metrical pattern.
- foot: Each line consists of two metrical feet, of various standard types.
- composition: We regret all the " Last Lyrics " and a good many more of Mr. Massey's later metrical compositions.
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