Metre

Word METRE
Character 5
Hyphenation me tre
Pronunciations /ˈmiːtə/

Definitions and meanings of "Metre"

What do we mean by metre?

To measure with a metering device.

To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.

To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Metre

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The word "metre" in example sentences

In poetry we recognise at once how the obvious periodic recurrence of certain accented syllables, which we term metre, plays an important part ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Note the difference between (a) descriptions and examples of dipodic metre as a particular kind of metre – one that goes with, or can also be scanned as, long and rapid iambics – and (b) claims that English or English-language verse or metre is always “really” dipodic (rather than being always “really” iambic, as Frost thought, or always “really” nothing in particular, with metrical bases that may vary completely among possible groupings of poems). ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think that last couplet's daring use of metre is the high point of the poem, but you can find the concluding four lines at McGonagall Online. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A square metre is capable of holding an average family car off the ground. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But the following lines of the fragment evince, that the metre is Munsarih; hence, a clerical error must lurk somewhere in the second foot. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So far Arabic metre is true to Nature: in impassioned speech the movement of language is iambic: we say “I will, I will,” not ❋ Unknown (2006)

The metre is a species of the Basít which, however, admits of considerable poetical license; this being according to Lane the usual “Weight,” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Fun fact about the word metre: that spelling is used only for units of measurement. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Cereatly after myn entent, [102] and he ends by declaring that in spite of the impossibility of giving an exact rendering of the French in English metre, he has kept very closely to the original. ❋ Flora Ross Amos (N/A)

It is written in Greek metre and engraved on a marble tablet which was recovered in fragmentary, though sufficiently complete, state to permit of the reconstruction of the entire text. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Two are irregular in metre, one has an additional half śloka. ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)

The metre is approximately that which came, in later literature, to be known as the Rathoddhatā (or Chariot-borne) variant of the Trishṭubh: ❋ Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys (1909)

The metre is incommensurate with every other unit. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Whether we called the metre of the _Prologue_ rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, or rhymed couplets of ten-syllabled, five-stressed verse, the music, at least, was clear enough. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

The style is for the most part rimed stanzas in short metre, which go trippingly on the tongue. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)

Completion of the version of the Psalms, in English metre, by Sternhold and Hopkins. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

Not wishing (I conclude) to betray myself by asking for paper at home, I purchased a sheet of foolscape from my friend, Mr Meeking, and filled it with verses in metre imitated from Dr Watts, at that time the only poet on my shelves. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Of the _Famous history of the vertuous and godly woman Judith_, 1565, all that is so far discoverable is that it is a translation in English metre by Edward Jenynges. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

Every thing were so nasty, I detarmined to shift my boardin 'and lodgin' in short-metre time. ❋ Unknown (1859)

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