📊 Performance measures 📜 Poetic meter study

metrics

8.6

The study of the rhythm of poems and how to write poems with a regular beat

noun
/ˈmɛtrɪks/

Literature

: métrica

Understanding metrics is essential for analyzing the formal aspects of verse.

Examples

Her lectures on metrics made poetic structures much more accessible to students.
The study of metrics is essential for understanding poetry.
He wrote his dissertation on metrics in Elizabethan poetry.
In class, we learned about the different types of metrics used in poetry.
He wrote his dissertation on metrics in Elizabethan poetry.
Understanding metrics is essential for analyzing the formal aspects of verse.
In class, we learned about the different types of metrics used in poetry.

Synonyms

poetics

vsmetrics

Specialized

1 8.4

The study of the rules and forms used to write poetry

focuses narrowly on meter and composing verse by rhythmic rules

prosody

vsmetrics

Literature

8.8

Rhythm and sound patterns in a poem that give its beat

focuses on composing lines using set rhythmic rules

Surface Forms

metrics singular

metrics plural

metric singular

Morphology

metrics = metric (semi-transparent) = metric + s

While 'metrics' is derived from 'metric', the specific meaning related to poetic meter is specialized.

Etymology

Metrics in poetry comes from the Greek root metron meaning 'measure', and it shares the same root as meter, the word for the rhythm of a poem. So, poetic metrics is about how lines are 'measured' to make rhythm.