Metrical

Alfred is also thought to be the author of 50 metrical psalms, but whether the poems were written by him, under his direction or patronage, or as a general part in his reform efforts is unknown.

All these prayers were metrical, and were handed down from generation to generation with the utmost care.

Apocalypse of John p. 8 Torrey showed how the three major songs in Revelation (the new song, the song of Moses and the Lamb and the chorus at 19: 6–8) each fall naturally into four regular metrical lines plus a coda.

Bezanson (1953), p. 648, italics Bezanson's Set over a metrical patern, the rhythms are "evenly controlled--too evenly perhaps for prose," Bezanson suggests.

Bishop Hildesley required that these Metrical Psalms were to be sung in churches.

Eino Friberg 's 1988 translation uses it selectively but in general is more tuned to pleasing the ear than being an exact metrical translation also often reducing the length of songs for aesthetic reasons.

Gradually there were added to these psalter choir-books additions in the form of antiphons, responses, collects or short prayers, for the use of those not skilful at improvisation and metrical compositions.

His style included 'metrical vandalism' and looseness of structure.

In Classical Latin poetry, the letter between vowels always counts as two consonants for metrical purposes.

In the early 17th century, when the King James Bible was introduced, the metrical arrangements by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins were also popular and were provided with printed tunes.

It is assumed that they were initially sung to any suitable tune that fitted the metre (rhythm), most probably to 16th or 17th century metrical psalm tunes.

Modern linguists consider the metrical hymns of the Rigveda Samhita to be the earliest, composed by many authors over several centuries of oral tradition.

Note how the word endings do not coincide with the end of a metrical foot; for the early part of the line this forces the natural accent of each word to lie in the middle of a foot, playing against the natural rhythm of the ictus.

Not that Classical Chinese poetry ever lost the use of the shi forms, with their metrical patterns found in the "old style poetry" ( gushi ) and the regulated verse forms of ( lüshi or jintishi).

Numerous modernist poets have written in non-traditional forms or in what traditionally would have been considered prose, although their writing was generally infused with poetic diction and often with rhythm and tone established by non- metrical means.

Similarly, the second syllable of the words urbem main and Romam main carry the metrical ictus even though the first is naturally stressed in typical pronunciation.

Smith, ed., Three Northumbrian Poems Alfred is said to be the author of some of the metrical prefaces to the Old English translations of Gregory's Pastoral Care and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.

Srinatha (1365–1441) was the foremost poet, who popularized this style of composition (a story in verse having a tight metrical scheme).

Structure The Aeneid, like other classical epics, is written in dactylic hexameter : each line consists of six metrical feet made up of dactyls (one long syllable followed by two short syllables) and spondees (two long syllables).

The alliterative patterns of early Germanic poetry interweave meter and alliteration as a key part of their structure, so that the metrical pattern determines when the listener expects instances of alliteration to occur.