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  • Metrical and "free verse" rhythms create memorability, too.

    How Memorization Makes Words Live Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

  • Metrical time caused him as much mental confusion as astronomical distances, but no emotional upset The trouble was again the lack of the concept in the Ship.

    Destiny Narrowly Avoided 2010

  • Among his publications in Romantic-period literature are The Passion of Meter: A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art (Kent State, 1995), essays on Coleridge's "Christabel" (JEGP 2001), and on the Romantic sonnet (European Romantic Review 2002).

    About this Volume 2003

  • Reverend Charles Henry Hartsborne, M.A., editor of a very curious volume, entitled “Ancient Metrical Tales, printed chiefly from original sources, 1829.”

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Yet Horace Walpole wrote a goblin tale which has thrilled through many a bosom; and George Ellis could transfer all the playful fascination of a humour, as delightful as it was uncommon, into his Abridgement of the Ancient Metrical Romances.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Metrical composition is always very difficult to me, nothing is done upon the first day, not one rhyme is in its place; and when at last the rhymes begin to come, the first rough draft of a six-line stanza takes the whole day.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Metrical composition is always very difficult to me, nothing is done upon the first day, not one rhyme is in its place; and when at last the rhymes begin to come, the first rough draft of a six-line stanza takes the whole day.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Metrical composition is always very difficult to me, nothing is done upon the first day, not one rhyme is in its place; and when at last the rhymes begin to come, the first rough draft of a six-line stanza takes the whole day.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Metrical composition is always very difficult to me, nothing is done upon the first day, not one rhyme is in its place; and when at last the rhymes begin to come, the first rough draft of a six-line stanza takes the whole day.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Metrical composition is always very difficult to me, nothing is done upon the first day, not one rhyme is in its place; and when at last the rhymes begin to come, the first rough draft of a six-line stanza takes the whole day,” he wrote while recollecting his early career in his autobiography.

    Under The Moon William Butler Yeats 1995

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