metrical
adjective
pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
metrically
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a word derived from
metrical.
Example Sentences
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Born into a family racked by childhood death, insolvency and mental illness, she compensated for the instability by sticking, metrically, to a measured poetic tranquillity that some today might call severe.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2020
In Leonard Bernstein’s 1966 recording with an invigorated New York Philharmonic, the jarring accents, placed in all the metrically wrong places, almost literally sound like someone ripping up paper.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2020
The songs have more harmonic complexity and aren’t as confined metrically as they usually are by his propulsive rhythm-guitar style.
From Slate ● May 18, 2017
These are serious, metrically intricate poems, but no less heartfelt for that.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012
He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
