It is unmetricalthough not unrhythmical; it follows the phrasing, the emphasis, and the natural inflections of the voice in reciting the text, at the same time that it idealizes them.
This line is unmetrical and otherwise difficult: #kin# should be sing.
I take qua to be an unmetricalform corrupted from the rare form quae of the indefinite adjective.
The inverse error occurs at Her VI 32, where most manuscripts have theunmetrical aeripedes for aenipedes.
The earliest pattern for poetry among the Arabians was the Saj (cooing), or rhymed but unmetrical prose.
At first it was unrhymed, as Goldziher says; the earliest Arabic poetry was in unmetrical prose.
My point is that Chaucer's verse as read by the sixteenth-century editors must have often contained just such unmetrical lines as Spenser's.
This amateurish effort is composed for the most part in a strangely unmetrical attempt at blank verse.
The stories which it tells in unmetrical rhyme are told in racy style, and its criticisms on men and things are clever and striking.
Serious and frivolous topics trip each other by the heels; all metrical forms, prayers, elegies, passages in unmetrical rhymes, all are mingled together.
