This was readily recognized by the translators, who have accordingly given metrical renderings.
Whoever has perused the prophetick metrical compositions of Van Vander Horderclogeth must surely remember the poem on the 3697 fol.
Recent objections have not centered about metrical technique, diction, or details of style: these are now admitted to be Vergilian enough, or rather what might well have been Vergilian at the outset of his career.
Valerius Messianic prophecy Metrical technique Milan Mountain scenery in the Eclogues Naples Nationalism in the Aeneid Nature, observation of "New poetry," the neoteroi Nicolaus Damascenus Octavius, or Octavianus see Augustus.
We may not be able to appreciate in English form their original metrical skill; but it is impossible that a people so musical as the Hebrews were kindled into passionate admiration of them, had they not possessed great rhythmic beauty.
It is not seen in any of our present forms of metrical composition.
Often he has been led into somewhat bold innovations such as the invention of the miniature ode, and the associating of an idea with a rime-motiv in the metrical short-stories.
I liked discovering metricaldevices in the poets, analysing them, i.
In spite of what I had better call my metrical precociousness, which I deal with in detail in a later chapter, I was exceedingly fond of outdoor sports of all sorts.
The Campion connection interests me personally because Campion was the protagonist of unrhymed lyrical verse--my special metrical hobby.
Their metrical system was elaborate, satisfactory, and pleasing, but it did not recognise the concordant chime of syllables.
Paul's football enthusiasm inspired him on one occasion to attempt a metrical description of a match between Bedford and Dulwich.
By the side of this fascinating prose, and still more fascinating metrical versatility, Crabbe's resolute and plodding couplets might often seem tame and wearisome.
Mr. Courthope and other critics hold that there are passages in Crabbe's earliest poems, such as The Village, which have a metrical charm he never afterwards attained.
It is in truth very graphic, and no doubt absolutely faithful to life; but it is rather metrical fiction than poetry.
There is little regularity in the metrical arrangement, but it makes a good song.
His metrical productions became widely known, and his songs were sung at the cottage hearths of the district.
As a classical scholar, he acquired rapid distinction; he took especial delight in the dramatic literature of Greece, and his metrical translations from the Greek plays were pronounced excellent specimens of poetical composition.
His original metrical productions are limited to those which appear in the present work.
But to compare the metrical qualities of Dolores or even of The Triumph of Time with the metrical qualities of On the Verge is almost like comparing the art of Thomas Moore with the art of Coleridge.
The canzoni of Petrarch are composed in stanzas of varying, but in each case uniform, length, and every stanza corresponds precisely in metrical arrangement with every other stanza in the same canzone.
In metrical inventiveness Swinburne is as much Victor Hugo's superior as the English language is superior to the French in metrical capability.
In Swinburne's development as a poet the metrical development is significant of every change through which the poet has passed.
The story is just one of those that William of Malmesbury would have picked up, and Wace has simply, in metrical paraphrase, transferred it from his pages to his own.
The Legend of Lady Grizelda Baillie" forms one of Joanna Baillie's Metrical Legends of Exalted Character.
Rossetti's popular translation of Villon's "Ballade of Fair Ladies" may almost be considered an original poem, especially as it entirely disregards the metrical rules of the ballades.
The metrical scheme of this sonnet is an example of 'antistrophic inversion': that is, two strophes followed by their antistrophes, but the antistrophe to the second strophe precedes the antistrophe to the first.
The Antistrophic system is familiar to students of Greek, as the metrical form of tragic choral odes.
Metrical scheme: a brief strophe and antistrophe and conclusion.
A characteristic metrical system in Biblical verse is the 'Doom form.
This is one of the most elaborate sonnets: itsmetrical scheme combines antistrophic and stanza structure (above, page 243).
The metricalscheme of this sonnet is simple: a strophe balanced by an antistrophe.
NOTES The Metrical System of Biblical Verse In the strictest sense the term 'metrical' is not applicable to Biblical verse, since this is constituted, not by any numbering of syllables, but by the parallelism of whole clauses.
The metrical scheme of this poem is a variation of the 'pendulum structure.
He rather shook his head at Gifted Hopkins for indulging so largely in metrical composition.
Many of the metrical preludes to his lectures are a versified and condensed abstract of the leading doctrine of the discourse.
But rhymes are iron fetters; it is dragging a chain and ball to march under their incumbrance; it is a clog-dance you are figuring in, when you execute your metrical pas seul.
Full of poetical feeling, and with a strong desire for poetical expression, Emerson experienced a difficulty in the mechanical part of metrical composition.
When it comes to the manufactured article, one is surprised to find how well the metrical artisans have learned to imitate the real thing.
They imitate his metrical forms as a mimic copies the gait of the person he is representing.
This was apparently a metrical version of Psalm 103, but the line does not correspond with any of the known versions of the Psalms in metre.
These lines occur in a metrical version of some of the Psalms, visually, and no doubt correctly, attributed to John Wedderburn, Vicar of Dundee.
The beautiful metrical version of the Psalms, made by Sir Philip Sidney and his sister, remained in manuscript for centuries.
The metrical arrangement here is very delightful, and the Chorus-adjustment particularly happy.
In the Carolingian period accentual verse followed the old metrical forms, with this exception: the metrical principle that one long is equivalent to two shorts was not adopted.
Consequently the number of syllables in the successive lines of an accentual strophe would remain the same, where in the metrical antecedent they might have varied.
Their development was not unrelated to the Latin accentual verse which was superseding metrical composition in the centuries extending, one may say, from the fifth to the eleventh.
This verse, which still lifts the heart of whosoever hears or reads it, may close our examples of mediaeval verses descended from metrical forms.
In the North, or more specifically speaking in the land of France north of the Loire, the twelfth century brought better metricalpoetry than in Italy.
Moreover, this formal divergence corresponds to a substantial difference, inasmuch as there was usually a larger survival of antique feeling and allusion in the mediaeval metrical attempts than in the rhyming poems.
Through the tenth century metrical composition became rougher, yet sometimes drew a certain force from its rudeness.
Mrs Merrifield thinks "that the metrical parts only constituted the Treatise 'de coloribus et artibus Romanorum' of Eraclius, and that this part is more ancient than a great part of the third book.
The success which attended metrical composition was quite intoxicating.
But he was already skilled in the art of metrical composition.
An interesting table is given by Corssen proving that the variance between natural and metrical accent is greater in the Saturnian verses than in any others, and in Plautus than in subsequent poets, and in iambics than in trochaics.
Coming between Ennius and Lucretius, and evidently studied by the latter, he is an important link in metrical development.
On the whole, however, among the Dactylic poets, from Ennius to Juvenal, the balance between natural and metrical accent remained unchanged.
The pastoral, and the metrical epistle, were now first introduced.
Its clear joyous ring marks the gay time of youth; its varied music sounds the prelude to the metrical triumphs that were to come, and if it is not Virgil's, we have lost in its author a genre poet of the rarest power.
Many of his phrases and metrical terms are imitated in Virgil, though such imitation is much more frequently drawn from his hexameter poems.
These are imitated from Calpurnius much as he imitates Virgil, except that the decline in metrical treatment is greater.
We append a few fragments showing their style, language, and metrical treatment.
Lúcius; by metrical accent the ictus or beat of the verse, which in the Greek rhythms implies a long quantity, but in the Saturnian measure has nothing to do with quantity.
It was in the metrical treatment that Ennius's greatest achievement lay.
In this metre we observe: (1) That when a dactyl or spondee ends a word, the natural and metrical accents coincide; e.
If the eleventh and fifty-first odes be compared with the sapphic odes of Horace, the great metrical superiority of the latter will at once appear.
The Satires and Epistles differ somewhat in form, in elaboration, and in metrical treatment, but on the whole they have sufficient resemblance to be considered together.
Though by no means a born poet, he had the faculty of writing terse and elegant verse when he chose, and in his younger days composed a long list of metrical works.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metrical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
