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Example sentences for "metrical form"

  • But as we descend in the scale of the art, metrical form becomes of more importance, and when simple subjects are dealt with, and a grand style is inappropriate, the production would not be called poetry unless in the form of verse.

  • Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

  • Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.

  • When one studies a prosody or a metrical form," says M.

  • The perfect matching of metrical form to the nature of the narrative material, whether that material be traditional or firsthand, simple or complex, rude or delicate, demands the finest artistic instinct.

  • The Mental Side of Metrical Form," in Mod.

  • My apology for presenting this new English version of the Nibelungenlied is that none of those hitherto made has reproduced the metrical form of the original.

  • Apart from the many faults of interpretation all of the metrical translations of the Nibelungenlied here enumerated are defective in one all-important respect: they do not reproduce the poem in its metrical form.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active operations; best love; cannot read; certain regions; est ainsi; face them; five volumes; little closer; metrical composition; metrical form; next come; nothing that; other object; physical characteristics; pretty high; servile insurrection; similar circumstances; then certainly; thermal springs; three wire; upper window; water enough; young reader