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• a  based on the meter as a standard of measurement
  metrical equivalents
• s  the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

• His forte was the metrical line so unbalanced as to be bonkers, For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a .
• The International Amateur Athletic Federation lists world's records only for metrical distances.
• Then, summing up all the metrical patterns, one machine, in a total of five hours, clacked out a detailed analysis of the Iliad's style.

• metric
• measured

Quotes

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• Lincoln Kirstein in New York Times
  Union Jackmay well be "visual, aural, metrical versification by an expert," as Kirstein wrote.
• Billy Collins in Wall Street Journal
  The poet Billy Collins, referring to 19th-century worthies like Tennyson and Browning as "the Metrical Lads, bless their hearts," claims that "Howl" "closed the door" on "all that."