metrical

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The piano soloist works out asymmetrical accents from interlocking metrical units while also maintaining composure in scales and running 16th notes.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Following the haiku are some poems in other metrical formats.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2021

Here, in Globish—with plus signs indicating missing words that Terry apparently doesn’t want to guess at and vertical lines demarcating metrical units—are the trapper’s instructions to Shamhat for seducing Enkidu:

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

The Breeches Edition recently returned to Pittsburgh also had an attached hymnal known as a metrical Psalter - the book of Psalms set to musical notation, he said.

From Washington Times • May 11, 2019

“It’s not iambic either. I don’t know if it’s anything metrical at all.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss