unmetrical
- a word derived from metrical.
Example Sentences
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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
And does Life offer us, in regard to our ideal hopes and purposes, anything but a prosaic, unrhymed, unmetrical Translation?
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
It was against the sham of second-hand mood and subject, rather than the great truth of music and loveliness, that the new poets broke into unmetrical protest.
From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard
The introduction of the word seems barbarous, unmetrical, an outrage on the beauty of the line.
From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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 Taylor, Bayard
