After a few lines the metre will present itself to you.
The minute study of the laws and properties of metre is observable in almost every piece in these volumes.
The Danish shell-heaps or kitchen-middens are mounds generally about fifty metres wide and one hundred metres long, and perhaps one metre in thickness.
Gradually they prospered, and in the upper layers there are trunks more than a metre in diameter.
The implements were found a little above the old lake bottom between seventy centimetres and one metre below the surface of the peat.
The other chamber, the sleeping-room, was nearly a metreabove the kitchen and separated from it by a partition.
The larger part of the house was occupied by the kitchen, with its floor about one metre below the surface of the ground, and entered by an inclined plane or ramp.
In upper strata their trunks were a metre or so in diameter.
The electrolytic cell and a resistance box form two arms of the bridge, and the sliding contact is moved along the metre wire which forms the other two arms till no sound is heard in the telephone.
The language and spelling agree with those of the Poem of the Passion and the Ordinalia, and the exact metre is not found anywhere else.
The metre consists of eight-lined stanzas (written as four lines) of seven-syllabled lines.
I have only to add that the metre of Christabel is not properly speaking irregular, though it may seem so through its being founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables.
It is probable that this metre is intended to be five-syllabled throughout, except that a “feminine” or double rhyme is occasionally allowable (e.
This metre is varied by being made into eight-lined stanzas, rhyming A A A B C C C B.
Another very common metrein the Dramas consists of stanzas of eight lines of seven syllables, rhyming alternately.
The comparative easy capture of the otherwise immensely strong 203 Metre Hill did not surprise me.
Two qualities belong to it by virtue of the metre in which it is most of it written--rapidity and antithesis.
There orthodox classicism still held sway; the manner and metre of Pope or Thomson ruled the roost of singing fowl.
Would themetre of Longfellow's "Coplas de Manrique" be good for music?
The metre is fourteen syllables, and capable of all sweetness and grandeur.
On either side of the door is placed a shallow arched niche, 1 metre wide and ·5 metre deep.
I do not doubt that all the rooms above described were covered by barrel vaults, but there is no wall on the upper level that stands much more than a metre high, and therefore no vault is preserved.
Every fifth recess contains a door, ·75 metre wide, which gave access to a small round chamber hollowed out of the thickness of the tower.
About ·90 metre above the arch of the door stands a very shallow calotte covering the niche.
These recesses, five on either side, are separated from one another by squat engaged columns set against piers which are ·80 metre deep.
The vault between the arches springs at a point ·25 metre higher.
In the latter room a space of ·80 metre is left open upon the east side and the remainder of the chamber is covered with a barrel vault lying east and west.
The span of the south arches must have been about ·30 metre less than the span of the east and west arches.
Metre there was none, at least, of a regular character: they were the wild improvisations of children in a merry mood.
Its forms are too cumbrous for regularly recurring expressions, subjected at once to the laws of metre and rhyme.
My Vale, should my muse prove but willing and free, Parting sorrows to chase from my brain, Shall in metre prophetic, on some two or three, Indulge in her whimsical vein.
The metre in which she wrote was the eight-syllable verse, in rhymed pairs, adopted also by Chretien in common with most of the poets of his time.
A noble metre if I can find a metre to precede or follow.
In the lame and limping metre of a barbarous Latin poet-- Est meum et est tuum, amice!
Strip the old Greek comedy of its action, and change the metre from Iambic to Heroic, and you have the Roman Satire!
From the metre Martial chooses for his complimentary effusion, and from the testimony of the old Scholiast, it is probable these verses were in Hendecasyllabics; or at all events in some lyrical metre.
In this metre he so bitterly satirized them that they hanged themselves, as Lycambes had done, in consequence of the ridicule of Archilochus.
Origen, who flourish'd in the Middle of the Third Century, speaks of singing Hymns or Praise to the Father in or by Christ in good Rhime, Tune, Metre and Harmony.
Every poem should have a certainmetre in which it is written, the lines being of regulated lengths.
The metre of the "Nibelungenlied" needs a word of explanation.
The metre of the present translation follows the original, except for the lengthening of the fourth line of the stanza which the author only occasionally differentiates in this respect from the rest.
An equilateral triangle, the sides of which measure one metre each.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
