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Meanings of metrical in English
Portuguese
métrico The rhythmic arrangement of syllables.
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Usage of metrical in English
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The following version attempts to repeat its metrical effects in some measure:-
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We have come to the end of our chapter on metrical modes.
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Not for metrical experiment only, but also because their mood fitted him.
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Akenside's verse was better when it was subjected to severer metrical rules.
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To Lanier a metrical test or a date is no insignificant thing.
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Of poetry, as distinguised from metrical composition, these ancient bards knew little.
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For metrical movement, for rhythmic harmony, he has no ear nor sense.
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Pope, Swift, Gay, Hervey, flung metrical abuse about in the coarsest fashion.
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Mrs. Sigourney's metrical writings are cherished by a large class of readers.
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The singing of the metrical psalm sounded strangely in unaccustomed ears.
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We know that it determines the metrical relations in the space-time continuum, e.g.
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What strikes one first in reading the Ode is the strange metrical structure.
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At the north, as Barbour preserves in his metrical history of Robert Bruce:
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But he was already skilled in the art of metrical composition.
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The most common metrical form in my translation is iambic pentameter.
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Her metrical phases are the symbol of the order of recurrence.
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