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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

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

The metrically complex second movement is followed by a finale incorporating a fragment from the spiritual “Let Us Break Bread Together.”

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2015

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