Sentence example with the word 'metrics'

metrics

accent, beat, ictus, measure, movement, primary stress, prosody, rhythmic pattern, scansion, stress accent, syllabic meter, versification

Definition n. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

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In the duel between the hunter and the beast-mind the intellectual powers of perception, memory, reason and will were developed; experience and knowledge by experience were enlarged, language and the graphic arts were fostered, the inventive faculty was evoked and developed, and primitive science was fostered in the unfolding of numbers, metrics, clocks, astronomy, history and the philosophy of causation.   [Please select]

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Free verse aroused the ridicule of the professors of metrics; the Little Theatre movement was solemnly banned by such pundits as Belasco and Mrs.   [Please select]

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