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In order to avoid the unmetrical line 83, as given in the Folios and by all Editors to Johnson inclusive, the lines 82-85 have been arranged as five, thus: If...

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

At first it was unrhymed, as Goldziher says; the earliest Arabic poetry was in unmetrical prose.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

My point is that Chaucer's verse as read by the sixteenth-century editors must have often contained just such unmetrical lines as Spenser's.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

It is indeed a very subtle pleasure to perceive the effect of lines which are unmetrical superficially but which yet confine themselves to a fixed structure below, by varying the stresses and compensating for them.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher

The inverse error occurs at Her VI 32, where most manuscripts have the unmetrical aeripedes for aenipedes.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear