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Metrically meaning
In a metrical manner.
Example sentences (7)
Although his diction presents some peculiarities, the style is metrically correct.
However, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.
However, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.e. not a complete line of dactylic hexameter ).
Normally, only long vowels in a metrically indeterminate position are marked.
On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer’s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“subduer of many”).
The surviving poems in fact are not metrically difficult, with the exception of two odes (Odes XV and XVI, Jebb).
We say that X is topologically discrete but not uniformly discrete or metrically discrete.