stichometry
noun
the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
stichometric
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a word derived from
stichometry.
Example Sentences
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Another problem which presented itself was the question of retaining the irregular stichometric division in some plays and passages which are not in verse.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
It contains the whole of the Pauline epistles with a few lacunae, and has a famous stichometric list of books prefixed in another hand to Hebrews.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
