- both hemistichs). Thus a line that is
metrical in one
tradition may be
unmetrical in another.
Where the
alexandrine has been adopted, it has frequently...
- broken, the line is
unmetrical. (Note that some
sources erroneously state that the
presence of a
Stress Maximum makes a line
unmetrical; this is false. In...
-
Anglican chant, also
known as
English chant, is a way to sing
unmetrical texts,
including psalms and
canticles from the Bible, by
matching the natural...
-
Rhymed prose is a
literary form and
literary genre,
written in
unmetrical rhymes. This form has been
known in many
different cultures. In some
cases the...
- 1220, in the
Arabic form
known as maqama. This is
written in
Hebrew in
unmetrical rhymes, in what is
commonly termed rhymed prose. It is a
series of humorous...
- that
Pound had
fallen under the
influence of Walt Whitman,
writing in "
unmetrical sprawling lengths that, in his hands, have
nothing to
commend them". But...
-
initial triple rhythm can be
carried right through the line,
producing this
unmetrical reading: / × × / × × / × × / When to the
sessions of
sweet silent thought...
-
nothing at all and who by his own
conjectures turns metrical lines into
unmetrical on
every other page."
Frank Goodyear mocked a
later editor for citing...
-
Latin is
difficult to p**** and
often ungrammatical. Its
prosody is
often unmetrical. Its anti-pagan
theme and tone are
similar to that of the
Carmen ad Antonium...
-
sensitive awareness of the
confusing welter of 20th-century life. Di Cicco's
unmetrical but
imagistic lines flowed on,
often with ****ulative power, to release...
