metrical
adjective
pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
unmetrical
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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
The former has in composition, metrical or unmetrical three distinct forms.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
For those same faculties, that same intensified individuality, will act and bear fruit in the man who lets his words drift on, unmetrical, in mere spoken manner.
From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee
That such a charge could be made against the Ambrosian mode of music, with its slow movement and unmetrical lines, seems strange to us, but it was new—and conservatism is the same in all ages.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
This is written in Hebrew in unmetrical rhymes, in what is commonly termed “rhymed prose.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
