metrical

Examples

• All

• In chapter 16, for example, the authors define compound meter as a metrical scheme with a triple pulse per beat.

  Academic text (2011)

• All of these effects can be found in Frost and are easily accounted for as common metrical practice.

  Academic text (2016)

• Which pattern seems to fit most naturally with the metrical flow of the words?

  Academic text (2000)

• The real error, though, is to try to make free verse a newly established regular metrical system.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Each sound is associated with a unique rhythm element in relation to its metrical context.

  Academic text (2005)

• Frost's innovation here is to break the metrical contract.

  Academic text (2016)

• We might look to the catalexis itself, which is an atypical metrical phenomenon in Eliot's poetry.

  Academic text (2017)

• South there's another translation of the book of Psalms into rhymed metrical verse.

• So we have ties over bars, we have lots of syncopation, we have irregular phrasing, somewhat irregular metrical patterns as well.

• The poem has a strict metrical structure that creates a pleasing rhythm.

Synonyms

R

rhythmical

vsmetrical

1 3.9

Happening with a steady, regular beat like music or movement

focuses specifically on syllable or poetic meter rather than general rhythm

M

metered

vsmetrical

• Literature

1 4.7

Having a regular pattern of strong and weak beats in each line of a poem

relates to meter itself rather than the specific arranged structure

M

metric

vsmetrical

• Literature

6.9

Relating to the rhythmic pattern of syllables in a poem

covers both poetry and music rather than only verse

Compounds

M

metrical foot

• Literature

8.1

A group of two or three syllables that makes the poem's basic rhythm

M

metrical unit

• Literature

7.5

A group of two or three syllables that makes the basic rhythm in a poem

How Rhythmic

metrical

• Literature

1 6.7

rhythmic

42 3.6

irregular

27 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology