metrical
adjective
pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
unmetrical
-
a word derived from
metrical.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Query, Is the medal referred to by Voltaire known to exist? and if so, is the substitution of the unmetrical and prosaic word copias due to the author of the medal, or to Voltaire himself?
From Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 by Various
In fact, we have so many instances of the possibility of reciprocally transferring the finest qualities of English and German poetry, that there is no sufficient excuse for an unmetrical translation of Faust.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
Thus the line, though of twelve syllables, is not unmetrical; indeed much less prosaic than with the old reading of count.
From Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
The hymns were unrhymed and unmetrical, but they may have been written in the form of alphabetical acrostics, such as appear in the 119th and a few other Psalms.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams
They are by no means lacking in sublimity of expression, and while quite unmetrical they are proportioned and emphasized, like Hebrew poetry, by means of parallelism.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
