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Emphasize that the measure's metrical structure is of primary importance and should be solidified before the ornaments are added.
Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
One's admiration for this haunting and beautifully cadenced lament is likely to increase when we submit it to metrical analysis.
Every other line stops on a masculine rhyme. These metrical procedures are perfectly joined to the imagery.
The morphological and metrical analyses indicate that all the studied material should be assigned to a single species.
They consist of metrical, continuous verse and divide not into chapters and sections but, naturally, into verses.
In the tragic senarius the divisions of the sense normally coincide with the main divisions of the metrical structure.
In poetry, Choriambi are never used alone, but always combined with other metrical 'feet' such as spondees, trochees and dactyls.
I cite a particularly interesting example from Greek metrics, an Archaic eight-syllable metrical unit known as the choriambic dimeter.
Inconveniently for composers, birds don't limit themselves to the chromatic scale, or to the confines of a straightforward metrical scheme.
If you're translating for surtitles, of course, there are no metrical constraints.
In Bogdanowicz and Owen's analysis, 45 metrical and 30 discrete-state characters in 57 extant hipposiderid species were examined.
He combined topological and metrical methods to attack problems of real analysis.
Both he and Frost advocated the use of natural diction, and of colloquial speech rhythms in metrical verse.
Lefevere, though, very simply overstates the case regarding the relative function and desirability of rhymed, metrical translation.
Other phonic features are added to the basic metrical pattern of verse, with or without rhyme.
Although it does not fit the metrical requirements of a sonnet, Herrick's song follows a metrical pattern and rhyme scheme.
Among the pioneers of free verse, D. H. Lawrence stands out as one who, though gifted in metrical verse, is happier without meter.
In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
Narrative folk ballads of Mexican origin typically have regular metrical features such as rhyming quatrains and use traditional imagery.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Riemann discovered elliptic metrical geometry, and Lobatchewsky hyperbolic geometry.
Valera's verses have perfect metrical form and evince high scholarship, but they are too learned to be popular.
This is a single stave of the ottava rima, at the close of the varying metrical forms of Lycidas.
That is true, and indeed as a parodist Sir George Trevelyan belongs to the metrical miocene.
The poem consists of thirty-five stanzas, not one of which repeats both the metrical pattern and rhyme scheme of any other.
The metrical accent or ictus was marked in ancient notation by points placed over the accented syllable.
His hymns are metrical in the sense of having lines with a fixed number of syllables and strophic divisions.
Not only is his matter all his own, but he has anglified the whole being of the metrical form itself.
The purpose of this academy was to encourage and establish the metrical and musical innovations advocated by baf and his friends.
Though in many respects a Chaucerian pastiche, it not rarely equals its model in verbal and metrical felicity.
This dodecasyllable has a short metrical pause after the sixth syllable, and a longer one after the twelfth.
As it is, his poem has the faults we should look for in a metrical version of Euclid.
The original fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue.
From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.
Many readers in fact combine the hold and the metrical pause or use them interchangeably.
Less generally, the rhetorical or syntactical accent in the same way takes precedence of the metrical.
The reign of metrical romance, brilliant but brief, was past, or nearly so.
But he was already skilled in the art of metrical composition.
By metrical language is meant that which is systematically rhythmical.
The whole universe is metrical, everything is a question of degree.
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